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...

Present study shows the Rationale behind the synthesis of chelating agents and their thermodynamic stability along with kinetic inertness of metal complex in vivo is the prerequisites for the successful application of bifunctional chelating agentconjugate. Macrocyclic bifunctional chelating agents (BFCs) with their established stabilizing properties are in the forefront for radio-immuno applica...

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...

background:  hydrogen has been demonstrated can selectively reduce the hydroxyl, which is the main cause of ionizing radiation-induced damage. amifostine (am) is the only radioprotective drug approved by the u.s. food and drug administration for use in radiotherapy. the purpose of the present study was to investigate the combined radio-protective effect of hydrogen rich water (hrw) and am. mate...

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 ...

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....