hypertonicity is the most common type of cerebral palsy consists of 85% of the affected children. it has a very complex nature making intervention and management very difficult. this article tries to make reader familiar with various types of intervention and introduce a new intervention process to help clinicians decide better. literature was reviewed with two criteria including: identifying v...

background drowning is a serious but neglected health problem in low-and middle-income countries. objectives to describe the effectiveness of drowning prevention program on the reduction of drowning mortality rates in rural settings at the north of iran, and guide its replication elsewhere. patients and methods this interventional design included pre- and post-intervention observations in the r...

abstract background: healthy behaviors in alzheimer prevention among at risk are very important. this study aimed to assess the effect of educational program based on health belief model on adopting preventive behaviors in alzheimer among elders under covering ardebil health care setting. methods: this was a quasi-experimental study which was conducted in 2013 among 148 elders who divided into ...

introduction: the precise time of using percutaneous coronary intervention (pci) after fibrinolytic therapy for maximum efficiency and minimum side effects is still undetermined. therefore, the present study was designed to compare the outcome of myocardial infarction (mi) patients who underwent surgical intervention (angiography and pci) within 48 hours of thrombolytic therapy or after that. m...

introduction: biological changes impact the psychological and interpersonal function in late life. therefore, the general health and well-being diminish with decreasing the ages. these changes lead to decreasing life satisfaction and meaning of life in elderly individuals. the aim of study is to examine the effectiveness of positive psychology interventions (ppis) on meaning of life and life sa...

in order to investigate the effect of pharmacist intervention on vancomycin use, this study was performed on all patients receiving vancomycin in the intensive care unit (icu) and hematology-oncology ward of taleghani educational hospital in tehran, iran. vancomycin use was assessed during a pre- and post-intervention period in accordance with the center of disease control and prevention (cdc) ...

introduction: spastic hemiplegia is one of the most common types of cerebral palsy. pathology of the central nervous system can alter normal development of the somatosensory cortex and develop sensory deficits. these deficits can decrease upper limp motor performances and skills and reduce the tendency to use the affected upper limp, so the quality of life is impaired in these children. therefo...

in this paper, we will review the foreign exchange market and will try to extract an exchange market pressure and an intervention index for iran by following the weymark (1995) approach to evaluate the central bank of iran’s exchange rate policy during 1368:q1 to 1391:q3. the estimation method employed, is the econometric technique known in the literature as the two-stage least squares (2sls).t...

transcatheter aortic valve replacement (tavr) is a novel therapeutic intervention for the replacement of severely stenotic aortic valves in high-risk patients for standard surgical procedures. since the initial partner trial results, use of tavr has been on the rise each year. new delivery methods and different valves have been developed and modified in order to promote the minimally invasive p...