BACKGROUND According to the existential philosophers, meaning, purpose and choice are necessary for quality of life. Qualitative researchers exploring the perspectives of people who have experienced health crises have also identified the need for meaning, purpose and choice following life disruptions. Although espousing the importance of meaning in occupation, occupational therapy theory has be...

Methemoglobin is a structurally modified form of hemoglobin incapable binding oxygen, and elevated levels methemoglobin cause tissue hypoxia. Occupational exposure to 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, commonly called trinitrotoluene, causes methemoglobinemia. This case report describes 27-year-old male sergeant who developed methemoglobinemia upon trinitrotoluene after blast injury while welding the walls...

background: following pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents, a variety of conditions occurs ranging from the acute inflammatory response (aspiration pneumonitis) to an infectious process (aspiration pneumonia). they cause due to the failure of protecting mechanism of airway patency following poisoning toxicity. methods: patients with acute drug poisoning for assessment of aspiration-induced ...

i found one article on the website of ijmtfm, which had studied the consequences of aspiration of gastric contents in acute poisoning patients (1). it was informative. unfortunately, there are some errors in that article, which i would like to bring to your kind attention.

background: good cytological sample is very important for the cytological diagnosis of thyroid nodules. the aim of this study was to evaluate the adequacy of prepared samples by the combination of aspiration and non- aspiration fine needle biopsy. methods: in this descriptive – analytical study, sampling was done simultaneously for each patient in fine needle aspiration and non-aspiration biops...