We reported the case of a 78-year old woman with the inadvertent superior vena cava injury resulting from hemodialysis catheter placement. The catheter was placed through the left internal jugular vein. Hemodynamics were stable. The initial chest film illustrated an extraluminal catheter and mediastinal widening. The patient did not have hemothorax. Computed tomography venography also confirmed...

background patient participation in nursing has great application and values the humanarian values of patients. patient participation is an international golden standard in the modern nursing paradigm. despite the importance of patient participation and its routine use in professional care, this concept is not clear, especially in social and cultural context of iranian nursing. this study clari...

background: members of a society are committed to protecting and respecting human dignity. this is particularly important in times of illness. knowledge and practice of patient’s bill of rights is the basis of health system efficiency. the present study aims to evaluate physicians’, nurses’ and patients’ awareness and attitude about patient’ bill of rights in qom university of medical sciences-...

conclusions there was a negative gap between the patients’ expectations and what they actually perceived in the studied rehabilitation centers (with the exception of one public clinic); therefore, improvements are needed across all five dimensions. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study conducted in ahvaz, iran. the study sample was composed of 255 patients randomly selected from...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa spinal hematoma is a rare and usually severe neurological disorder that, without adequate treatment, often leads to death or permanent neurological deficit. epidural as well as subdural and subarachnoid hematomas have been investigated in some studies. a 66-year-old man referred to our hospital because of acute onset paraplegia and incontinency star...

Introduction: Trauma is the 3rd major cause of death in urban areas, and cardiac penetrating injury is one of the most important causes of it. Vital signs, mechanism of injury and cardiac tamponad are the important prognostic factors in this patients. At about 70% of alive injured patients have not any clinical symptoms related to cardiac injury, for this reason early diagnosis according to c...

The article addresses the mutual relationship between environmental improvements and improvement in social status of women. The main question of this article is: Are there any relationships between improvement in environment protection and promotion in the situation of women? The theoretical framework includes Hatfield’s view about the existence of communities between the public and private sph...

SARS-CoV-2 is a novel strain of the coronaviruses posing great challenges to the human immune system. Hence, human innate immunity determines how our body responses to the early infection (1-3). According to the studies, coronavirus can cause a range of symptoms by affecting various organs in the body (4, 5). Currently, our hospital is one of the referral centers of COVID-19 in Iran. We would l...