Background: Control and maintenance of endotracheal tube cuff pressure and prevention of sore throat are major concerns in post-anesthesia care. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate changes in the pressure of the endotracheal tube cuff filled with saline versus air and post-anesthesia sore throat when the position is altered from supine to lateral. <st...

Background: Erythropoietin (EPO) is known as a regulating hormone for the production of red blood cells, called erythropoiesis. Some studies have shown that EPO exerts some non-hematopoietic protective effects on ischemia-reperfusion injuries in myocytes. Using echocardiography, we evaluated the effect of EPO infusion on reducing ischemia-reperfusion injuries and improvement of the cardiac func...

background: cardiovascular diseases have the highest death rates in human society. coronary artery disease is among the most important of these diseases. no treatment of cardiovascular disease has as much impact on the quality of life of the patients as the heart surgery. the recovery from heart surgery is associated with symptoms of pain and psychological distress. in the early recovery period...

patients with end stage renal disease need a good vascular access for hemodialysis. arteriovenous fistula is the method of choice for vascular access in these patients. however, failure of arteriovenous fistula due to thrombosis is a major problem. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the heparin on the patency of the arteriovenous fistula. this prospective interventional case co...

conclusions listening to the relaxant music can reduce postoperative pain. it is suggested that relaxant music be used as a complementary method in patients in order to reduce prospective pain. results before intervention, the mean of pain intensity was 6.32 ± 0.21 and 6.10 ± 0.21 for experimental and control groups, respectively; and the difference was not significant (p = 0.21). after interve...

Introduction: Delirium has been considered as the most common cognitive disorder after major surgery. Melatonin therapy is effective in reducing the incidence of delirium after open heart surgery with pain relief mechanism and adjustment of the sleep cycle and the absence of specific side effects. This study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of melatonin on prevention of delirium aft...

introduction: surgical site infection is one of the most common nosocomial infections and today it is believed that this infection caused by bacterias which penetrate into the wound during operation. surgery team members who have much contact with surgical site tissues, can control this infection by observing infection control principles. this study was done in order to determine performance ra...