T he diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction for some time has been based on the World Health Organization s “two out of three” criteria, namely: angina, electrocardiographic changes, and elevated plasma enzymes. This was devised in 1959 before clinical application of plasma isoenzymes. It was soon realized that Q-waves on the EGG, while very specific, are not very sensitive. The combination o...

BACKGROUND Nurses tend to wash their hands more often than physicians, and among nonhealth care workers, women tend to wash their hands more often than men. This study examined the influence of gender on the handwashing rates of health care workers (HCWs). The null hypotheses were that there would be no intergender difference in (a) handwashing rates in HCWs across professions and (b) within pr...

We present a universal modular robot architecture. A robot consists of the following intelligent modules: central control unit (CCU), drive, actuators, a vision unit and sensor input unit. Software and hardware of the robot fit into this structure. We define generic interface protocols between these units. If the robot has to solve a new application and is equipped with a different drive, new a...

BACKGROUND Buffalo City Municipality (BCM) in the Eastern Cape (EC) has the highest susceptibility to deliberate self-harm (DSH) of any South African city. The EC also has a shortage of critical care beds. OBJECTIVE; This study reviewed DSH admissions over 5 years to the critical care unit (CCU) of Cecilia Makiwane Hospital (CMH), a large peri-urban hospital in the EC. It also examined the fina...

despite the reduction of mortality rate in the past years, coronary artery diseases (cads) are the main reason of death in the world. many factors including changes in nurses and medical staffs, numbers of beds influence the mortality rate of patients admitted in holidays and night time. the objectives of this study were to clarify the association between mortality rate and off-hours and holida...

PURPOSE The purpose of this pilot study was to determine if a difference existed between nosocomial pneumonia rates for intubated critical care unit (CCU) patients who received twice-daily oral hygiene care with 0.12% chlorhexidine gluconate and those who received the standard oral care. METHODS Over seven months (February to August), CCU patients were identified through screening and informe...

Background: There is difficulty in identifying low-risk patients with acute coronary syndrome the emergency department (ED). Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare mistriage between Emergency Severity Index (ESI) plus cardiac troponin I rapid test (cTnI) and ESI among chest pain. Methods: A randomized clinical trial conducted from January April 2019. One hundred pain were randomly all...

introduction: clinical education in critical care units is very important and promotion of quality of clinical education can lead to higher qualification and professionalism of nursing students in this area of practice . so, this study was conducted to evaluate the clinical skills of nursing students in icu , ccu and dialysis units . method & materials : this research was a cross sectional desc...