background: the objectives of an educational system in a society are based on society's requirements. since personnel knowledge and skill are not qualified with the advantages of science and invention of new tools, new needs are arisen. comparing the curriculum of undergraduate course of operating room of our country with international societies, it seems that this curriculum is not a good one ...

background and objectives: operating room (or) scheduling is key to optimal operating room productivity. the significant uncertainty associated with surgery duration renders scheduling of surgical operation a challenging task. this paper proposes a novel computational stochastic model to optimize scheduling of surgeries with uncertain durations. the model considers various surgical operation co...

179 SMALLPOX, ERADICATED WORLDWIDE IN THE 1970s, has reemerged as a possible bioterror threat.1 Following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax poisonings, experts’ concerns heightened over the use of smallpox as a bioterror agent because it is transmitted easily from person to person. The population is immunologically susceptible, since U.S. civilians were last vaccinated more than 3 d...

Background: Some operating room personnel are occupationally exposed to genotoxic agents such as anesthetic gases and ionizing radiation. Adaptive response, as a defense mechanism, will occur when cells become exposed to a low dose of factors harming DNA (priming dose), which in the subsequent exposure to higher dose of those factors (challenging dose), show more resistance and sensibility.. <b...

background: each member of society needs suitable services in recovery wards including patient safety in the ward, improvement and taking care of patients after surgery and anesthesia in order to decrease undesirable evidences, mortality and morbidity. the special characteristic of recovery cares is nursing cares. the nurse is one of the effective members of a health group and her/his effective...

abstract introduction: one major undertaking of universities is educating professionals required by the community. since academic institutes are willing to know about the fate of their graduated students and how they are using their expertise, the present study was performed to have a look at the employment status and the pursuit of higher education among the graduate students of operation room...