Background: A few studies have addressed the impact of stoma on patients’ social life. This study aimed to understand the problems leading to social isolation of patients undergoing ostomy. Methods: A conventional qualitative content analysis by unstructured interviews was conducted on 27 patients with intestinal or urinary diversion ostomy recruited from the Iranian Ostomy&nbs...

Transmission of organisms within the hospital setting has become a topic of major concern not only for patients and healthcare facilities but also for government agencies and the general public. This increased awareness has occurred in part due to the spread of organisms that have limited treatment options, such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), as well as the heightened recogni...

We treated a patient with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) and sustained ventricular tachycardia by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD). He then suffered from inappropriate ICD shocks triggered by paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). We successfully performed pulmonary vein orifice isolation to eliminate paroxysmal AF. The pulmonary vein orifice isolation was a simple and useful procedu...

We report a case of simultaneous microsurgical clipping 5 cerebral aneurysms in patient with multiple the anterior brain.We analyzed existing treatment approaches to aneurysms, including endovascular isolation, clipping, as well surgical tactics subarachnoid hemorrhage. covered recommendations for screening, risks, and aneurysm isolation (single-stage multiple-stage).Using our own experience (s...

Aim: The present study was conducted to determine the level of compliance intern nursing students with isolation precautions and factors affecting them.Material Method: research carried out fourth-year in internship program a university hospital between December 2020 April 2021. data were collected using “Participant Information Form” “Isolation Precautions Compliance Scale”. Results: It determ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to characterize the pathogens responsible for causing diarrhea according to season, region of isolation, patient age, and sex as well as to provide useful data for the prevention of diarrheal disease. METHODS Stool specimens from 14,886 patients with diarrhea were collected to identify pathogenic bacteria from January 2014 to December 2014 in Korea. A tota...

BACKGROUND Surgery can eliminate atrial fibrillation (AF), but data confirming the rationale for specific lesion sets are lacking. We used postoperative electrophysiological studies to test the rationale and effects of operative pulmonary venous isolation. METHODS AND RESULTS Fourteen patients undergoing surgical pulmonary venous isolation for drug-refractory lone AF were studied. Successful ...