medication errors account for about 78% of serious medical errors in intensive care unit (icu). so far no study has been performed in iran to evaluate all type of possible medication errors in icu. therefore the objective of this study was to reveal the frequency, type and consequences of all type of errors in an icu of a large teaching hospital. the prospective observational study was conducte...

On March 30, 2021, a 53-year-old man was hospitalized, complaining of breath shortness, chest pain, and pain in his right leg from 2 weeks ago when he went mountain climbing. His symptoms did not improve, shortness worsened. Therefore, to hospital hospitalized investigate the possibility Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Pulmonary Thromboembolism (PTE) further. At admission, O2 sat 91, followed by Res...

To assess the rapidly changing psychological status of nurses during the acute phase of the 2003 SARS outbreak, we conducted a prospective and periodic evaluation of psychiatric morbidity and psychological adaptation among nurses in SARS units and non-SARS units. Nurse participants were from two SARS units (regular SARS [N=44] and SARS ICU [N=26]) and two non-SARS units (Neurology [N=15] and CC...

Patients admitted to the cardiac care unit (CCU) are prone to functional degradation and disability due to prolonged hospitalization and cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this study was to assess the activities of daily living (ADLs) after discharge from CCU. This descriptive cross-sectional study was performed on 180 subjects selected through convenience sampling from the patients admitted t...

The PCIM CCU was set up in June 2006 from the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital of Guadalajara, reaching out to primary care (PC), with the aim of achieving collaboration and coordination between the two levels of care and avoiding the sense of imposition that can be felt in primary care with regards all that comes from the hospital. To this end, several meetings were h...

Medical errors in the care of patients who present with acute coronary syndrome (ACS)include errors in emergency department (ED) triage, such as the decision to send home a patient who presents with ACS or to hospitalize a patient who does not have ACS to the cardiac care unit (CCU), and errors in treatment, such as the failure to promptly use reperfusion therapy for patients who present with S...

This paper described design and architecture of our own innovative work about the Mobility Management in Wireless Body Area Network for Patient Monitoring System. This system will have the capability to monitor physiological parameters from multiple patient bodies. The system uses the Licence free MICS band between the sensor nodes and a remote central control unit (CCU) that behaves as a base ...