Scheduling elective surgeries following COVID-19: Challenges ahead

A Mathematical Model for Scheduling Elective Surgeries for Minimizing the Waiting Times in Emergency Surgeries

The ever-increasing demands for surgeries and the limited resources force hospitals to have efficient management of resources, especially the expensive ones like operating rooms (ORs). Scheduling surgeries including sequencing them, assigning resources to them and determining their start times is a complicated task for hospital managers. Surgery referrals usually include elective surgeries that...

Assessing Educational Harms and Challenges of Covid-19

Background and Objectives: As a result of the Covid-19 outbreak in Iran and other countries of the world, face-to-face training in schools and universities was changed to distance eductaion, which has had different consequences. The purpose of this study was to identify and categorize educational harms and challenges using existing measures and evidence from recent international data. The resul...

COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and approaches in blood transfusions

One of the goals of the Iranian Blood Transfusion Organization is to provide adequate healthy blood and reduce the risk of various viral and bacterial transmission infections. With the removal of alternative blood donation, all blood units and blood products are provided through voluntary blood donation in Iran. The Blood Transfusion Organization screens the donated blood according to standard ...

Challenges on Hospital Fire Safety during COVID-19 Crisis

A Few Steps Ahead to Select ACE2 in Pediatric COVID-19 Treatment: A Review of Literature

This review study aimed to examine the relationship between Coronavirus (COVID-19) and its uses in renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) to infect the patient using the related studies in this regard. Finally, the logical method of using the related medicine, and the benefits and harms of using these Medications will be indicated in the treatment of novel coronavirus. It is hoped that a s...