introduction: although patients do not experience sever pain after laparoscopic surgery, most of them experience acute or chronic pain afterward. while conventional pain killers including nsaid and narcotics in laparoscopic surgery have specific side effects, their application is inevitable. this study compares the efficacy of local anesthetic drugs and conventional pain killers in post-operati...

conclusion tf-cbt for patients with acute stress disorder has been shown to be efficacious in reducing the likelihood of subsequent development of ptsd. despite the impressive level of empirical support for tf-cbt, many professionals remain unaware of its advantages and many children and parents who could benefit do not receive such treatment. further more, in iran, there may not yet be any tf-...

abstract our patient was a 43-year-old woman with a suboccipital headache and pain in the upper cervical region from 3 years ago with a progressive generalized weakness in the last 3 months. neuroimaging study showed a dumbell shaped lesion with compression of the spinal cord in the cervical region that was identified as a neurinoma. the tumor had been completely removed by surgery but after th...

sepsis and septic shock are among mortality causes following major surgeries. the charlson co-morbidity index consists of 19 weighted categories related to chronic health which measures the burden of co-morbidity. the goal of this study was to determine the incidence of postoperative sepsis in patients underwent gynecological and gastrointestinal cancer surgeries and predictive role of charlson...

Although war-trauma victims are at a higher risk of developing PTSD, there is no consensus on the effective treatments for this condition among civilians who experienced war/conflict-related trauma. This paper assessed the effectiveness of the various forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) at lowering PTSD and depression severity. All published and unpublished randomized controlled trials ...

Twenty-five contacts out of 568 (4.4%) who received the vaccine and 17 out of 522 contacts (3.3%) who received the immunoglobulin developed hepatitis A. The authors conclude that low rates of hepatitis A in both groups indicate that both interventions provided good protection after exposure. The slightly higher rates of hepatitis A among vaccine recipients may indicate a true difference in effi...

The paper deals with the problem of output regulation for the class of multiinput multi-output square nonlinear systems satisfying a minimum-phase assumption and a “positivity” condition on the high-frequency gain matrix. By following a design paradigm proposed in [12] for single-input single-output nonlinear systems, it is shown how an internal model-based controller can be obtained, whose dim...