OBJECTIVES To evaluate the capability of accident and emergency (A&E) departments in six health regions of England to safely decontaminate casualties exposed to hazardous chemicals. METHODS In January 1999 a postal questionnaire was sent to the clinical director of all A&E departments in Trent, North and South Thames, South and West, North West and, Anglia and Oxford Health Regions. The quest...

(1) Background: To determine paramedics' frequency of contact with blood and other body fluids, as well as the analysis of knowledge of paramedics about blood-borne infections, their attitudes to patients infected with blood-borne viruses, and the post-exposure procedures implemented by paramedics; (2) Methods: An anonymous questionnaire among 190 paramedics working in various health care facil...

Objective(s): In this paper, we discussed natural agents with protective effects against stem cell senescence. Different complications have been observed due to stem cell senescence and the most important of them is “Aging”. Senescent cells have not normal function and their secretary inflammatory factors induce chronic inflammation in body which causes different patho...

Ionizing radiation interacts with biological systems to produce reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species which attack various cellular components. Radio-protectors act as prophylactic agents to shield healthy cells and tissues from the harmful effects of radiation. Past research on synthetic radio-protectors has brought little success, primarily due to the various toxicity-related ...

BACKGROUND There is limited research on preparation of health care workers for disasters. Prior research addressed systems-level responses rather than specific institutional and individual responses. METHODS An anonymous online survey of hospital employees, who were grouped into clinical and non-clinical staff, was conducted. The objective of this study was to compare perceptions of clinical ...

PURPOSE These comments suggest a division of radiation protective agents on the grounds of their mechanism of action that increase the radio resistance of an organism. CONCLUSION Given below is the division of radiation protective agents on the basis of their mechanism of action into 3 groups: 1) Radiation protective agents, with the implementation of radiation protective action taking place ...

With a 2030 projection of 23.6 million deaths per year, the prevalence and severity cardiovascular disease are astoundingly high. Thus, there is definitive need for identification novel compounds with potential to prevent or treat associated states. Moreover, also an ever-increasing drug delivery systems (DDS) that cope poor ranging physiochemical properties therapeutic achieve clinical effect....

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is the least desirable way to ensure workplace safety, and it is difficult to use consistently. Hard hats are different; they have cachet and are often worn even when they are not required. We investigated the history of this personal protective equipment to see if there were any lessons that could be applied to other forms of PPE. We learned that what makes ...

Experiments indicating the existence of a menstrual toxin responsible for some of the clinical features of preeclamptic and eclamptic toxemias of pregnancy, and of a protective factor capable of neutralizing this toxin in animal experiments and in human cases have been reported by Smith and Smith (l-3). The apparent success obtained in some of the clinical cases in which protective pseudoglobul...