Background: Advances in neonatal intensive care have markedly improved survival in preterm infants. These babies need hospitalization due to the immaturity of the respiratory and digestive systems. The timing for the initiation of proper feeding in premature infants admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) is an important challenge for physicians, parents, and...

background: the unplanned departure of endotracheal tube is one of the main complications for endotracheal intubation. in addition to endotracheal extubation, its movement can also lead to damage to the oral cavity. stabilizing endotracheal tube is the most important factor that can prevent unplanned departure of endotracheal tube as well as its movement. the current study was done with the aim...

conclusions it should be kept in mind that the oral flora bacterium s. anginosus may cause transient bacteremia and deep-seated organ abscesses in immunodeficient patients with poor oral hygiene. such patients with intra-abdominal abscesses should be treated with antibiotics and surgery. introduction the streptococcus anginosus group of bacteria are low-virulence bacteria existing as commensals...

BACKGROUND Evidence is emerging that women's poor oral health and health practices during pregnancy are associated with poor oral health in their children and potentially an increased risk of pre-term or low-birth weight infants. METHODS/DESIGN The Midwifery Initiated Oral Health-Dental Service (MIOH-DS) trial is a three arm multicentre randomised controlled trial which will recruit women fro...

Background: Mucosi s is an important adverse effect of cancer treatment. The aim of this study was to inves gate the effect of ice cubes on oral mucosi s following head and neck radiotherapy. Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted on 40 head and neck cancer pa ents who underwent radiotherapy. The pa ents were randomly divided into ...

Background: The unplanned departure of endotracheal tube is one of the main complications for endotracheal intubation. In addition to endotracheal extubation, its movement can also lead to damage to the oral cavity. Stabilizing endotracheal tube is the most important factor that can prevent unplanned departure of endotracheal tube as well as its movement. The current study was done with the aim...

The current pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study attempts, firstly, to probe the effects of teaching formulaic sequences (FSs) on the second or foreign language (L2)  learners' oral proficiency improvement and secondly, to examine whether teaching FSs through different resources (i.e. animation vs. text-based readings) have any differentially influential effects in augmenting L2  l...

educational assessment is an official activity that is done for determining quality, effect or value of a program, process, or goal (1). the major purpose of educational assessment is to determine the value of the underassessment phenomenon so that it can help the interested and responsible people to make correct decisions about that phenomenon. educational assessment is the best criteria of ac...