Guidelines regarding Deep Vein Thrombosis prophylaxis following total knee arthroplasties have had conflicting information the use of aspirin as a prophylactic agent in recent years. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence refrains from listing drug its guidelines while American College Chest Physicians advocates drug. Despite guidelines, physicians favored years, with more than 80% util...

The article provides an overview of references on the rational use nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in modern medicine. Nonsteroidal are a group with different chemical structures (mostly acid derivatives) that have anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, antiplatelet (acetylsalicylic acid, acetylsalicylate, ketoprofen, diclofenac sodium, niflumic indomethacin) effects. NSAIDs d...

introduction of ostrich (struthio camelus domesticus), a new exotic host species to a new ecosystem likeiran, necessitates the study of its infectious diseases including parasitic infestations. for a period of one year, from 2002–03, faecal samples of 254 ostriches on 5 farms located at different parts of iran, includinggarmsar, semnan province (n = 85); nashtaroud, mazandaran province (n = 29)...

canids are reservoir for some zoonoses helminthic disease. they are one of main public health problem. theaim of this study was to ascertain frequency of gastrointestinal helminthic infection of stray dogs in zabol city,southeaster of iran. in this descriptive study, 30 stray dogs were euthanized, intestine was removed by necropsy.then, the intestines was opened by scalpel and their contents pa...

BACKGROUND Traumatic injuries to the lower gastrointestinal tract occur in up to 15% of all injured combatants, with significant morbidity (up to 75%) and mortality. The incidence, etiology, associated injuries, and overall mortality related to modern battlefield colorectal trauma are poorly characterized. METHODS Using data from the Joint Theater Trauma Registry and other Department of Defen...

BACKGROUND The study of illnesses causing absence of workers from work in industries is a practical method to study the health status of industrial workers and to identify occupational health hazards. The iron and steel industries are particularly hazardous places of work. Published data from India on health status of iron and steel workers is limited, therefore this study was undertaken to inv...

Design: Patients and their parents presenting to the emergency department (ED) waiting room of an urban, tertiary care children’s hospital were asked to use a Self-Report Tool, which consisted of a questionnaire asking questions related to the subjects’ current illness. Measurements: The sensitivity and specificity of three data sources for assigning patients to disease categories was measured:...

Emerging evidence suggests that a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood may disrupt the ability to abstract the central meaning or gist-based memory from connected language (discourse). The current study adopts a novel approach to elucidate the role of immediate and working memory processes in producing a cohesive and coherent gist-based text in the form of a summary in children with mild a...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW We discuss recent developments in the use of neuroimaging and, in particular, functional MRI, in the assessment of patients diagnosed as vegetative state or minimally conscious state. RECENT FINDINGS In the last year, there has been a substantial increase in the number of research studies published which have used state-of-the-art neuroimaging methods to assess residual cogn...