BACKGROUND Patients admitted in coronary care units face various stressors. Ambiguity of future life conditions and unawareness of caring methods intensifies the patients' anxiety and stress. This study was conducted to assess the effects of whole body massage on anxiety and vital signs of patients with acute coronary disorders. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 120 patie...

BACKGROUND Myocardial infarction (MI) is a life threatening disease that influences the physical, psychological and social dimensions of the individual. Improper lifestyle is one of the causes of this disease. The use of nursing models could be one of the important and fundamental steps in changing the risk factors associated with MI. This study was carried out to evaluate the effect of continu...

BACKGROUND A comprehensive preoperative evaluation is critical for providing anesthetic care for patients from the intensive care unit (ICU). There has been no preoperative evaluation form specific for ICU patients that allows for a rapid and focused evaluation by anesthesia providers, including junior residents. In this study, a specific preoperative form was designed for ICU patients and eval...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Measurement and our understanding of safety culture are still evolving. The objectives of this study were to assess variation in safety and teamwork climate and in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting, and compare measurement of safety culture scales using two different instruments (Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) and Hospital Survey on Patient Safety C...

Around 90% of chronic dermatophyte infections are caused by the fungi Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Trichophyton rubrum. One of the causes of the chronic infection resides in the immunosuppressive effects of the cell-wall components of these organisms. Therefore we have attempted to identify the chemical structure of galactomannan, one of the major cell-wall components. The cell-wall polysacc...

18 which we denote by (j) and which does not depend on t as desired. Finally we have: TUNE n X j=1 p j max t T(t; j) n X j=1 p j r(j) = n X j=1 p j r(h + 2(q ? 1)(log q d (j) + 1)) n X j=1 p j r(h + 2(q ? 1)(log q 2d j + 1)) n X j=1 p j r(h + 2q(log q d j + 1)) = 2qr(log q n X j=1 p p j + n X j=1 p j log q 1 p p j) + (h + 2q)r 4qr log q n X j=1 p p j + (h + 2q)r where the third inequality follo...