background: neurocritical intensive care units (nicus) have been provided as new sub-special intensive care wards to give more special services for patients with acute neurology problems. as we know, there is no organized database about epidemiology of nicu patients in our country. population-based assessment (even in a small population) could be a starting point to achieve an insight about neu...

background posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a severe anxiety disorder occurred due to past adverse experiences. several researches have demonstrated that ptsd is quite common among patients discharged from critical care unit. conclusions prevalence of ptsd is high among patients discharged from icus and some medical individual factors such as elderly, unemployed, being single, using mech...

background a broad variety of fungi, especially candida species, are becoming increasingly common causes of urinary tract infections in hospital settings. objectives the current cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to determine the causative agents, risk factors and incidence rate of candiduria in critically ill patients, hospitalized in intensive care units (icus) of four iranian hospitals....

objective to investigate association between nosocomial infection, blood products transfusion and microorganisms responsible in patients who hospitalized at icu (intensive care unit). patients and methods in this prospective study, 217 patients who were admitted to the icu of taleghani hospital between august 2010 and august 2011 were included. nosocomial infections were defined using the conta...

background: since the family is a social system, the impairment in each of its component members may disrupt the entire family system. one of the stress sources for families is accidents leading to hospitalization particularly in the intensive care unit (icu). in many cases, the families’ needs in patient care are not met that cause dissatisfaction. since the nurses spend a lot of time with pat...

background & aims: endotracheal intubation is commonly performed in the intensive care unit. many international guidelines for difficult intubation management are available and the intensivists think that any endotracheal intubation in icu is potentially difficult with several complications. materials & methods: after obtaining ethical approval, this descriptive and analytical study was conduct...

annually, 200 ha of agh ghala rangelands in golestan, iran are under alkaligrass puccinella distans's cultivation but the failure in the identification of appropriate sites for seed sowing may result in high costs of cultivation. the current study aims to reduce such costs through the examination of apt sites to grow p. distans in northern rangelands of agh ghala golestan, iran. because of the ...