introduction: opium addiction can change immune response to types of stress such as injury or trauma due to alterations in the in secretion status of cytokines in the body. in this study, effects of opium addiction on wound healing and post-operative adhesion bands were assessed after laparotomy. materials and methods: male rats (n=20) were randomly divided into opium addicted (documented with ...

Remifentanil is an ultra short acting opioid that is suitable for many operations and is wildly used for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. In this article we have reported the incidence of abdominal pain after cataract surgery in patients with remifentanil based anesthesia. This study is a randomized single blind clinical trial on 300 patients who were candidates for elective cataract su...

Remifentanil is an ultra short acting opioid that is suitable for many operations and is wildly used for induction and maintenance of anesthesia. In this article we have reported the incidence of abdominal pain after cataract surgery in patients with remifentanil based anesthesia. This study is a randomized single blind clinical trial on 300 patients who were candidates for elective cataract su...

Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is one of the most frequently encountered disorders in Emergency Surgery Departments worldwide without negligible hospital admission rates and social costs (1,2). Notwithstanding significant improvements in techniques and materials, intra-abdominal adhesions following abdominal surgery still represent a major unsolved and debated issue harbouring challeng...

background & aim: pain is the main stressful factor in patients hospitalized in intensive care units(icu). non-pharmacological methods for pain relief are preferred by icu patients due to lack of considerable side effects. the present research aims to determine the effect of tens on pain intensity followed by surgery in patients hospitalized in intensive care units. setting of the study was bes...