conclusions injuries affect all age groups; however, the disproportionately at risk population is the productive youth. preventive strategies should focus on reducing trauma incidence among young men at population level. considering the higher number of incidents occurring in mid spring and late summer, authorities should devise preventive plans mainly through alteration of traffic rules in thi...

objective: to determine the epidemiology and pattern of emergency operating room workload in nemazee hospital affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran. methods: all surgical emergency operations which were performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, iran were collected over twelve months (september 2007 to september 2008). the data obtained included indications, presenting...

introduction: burns can be very destructive, and severely endanger the health and lives of humans. it maybe cause disability and even psychological trauma in individuals. . such an event can also lead to economic burden on victim’s families and society. the aim of our study is to evaluate epidemiology and outcome of burn patients referring to emergency department. methods: this is a cross-secti...

abstract background: nurses as the major group of health service providers need to have a satisfactory quality of work life in order to give desirable care to the patients. workplace violence is one of the most important factors that cause decline in the quality of work life. this study aimed to determine the quality of work life of nurses in selected hospitals of isfahan university of medical ...

1024x768 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none fa background : heart failure is a common health problem with poor prognosis. the gold standard for diagnosis is echocardiography but it is not always reachable, especially in emergency conditions. nt-pro-brain natriuretic peptide (nt-probnp) is a novel indicator for the diagnosis of heart failure and is being used in routine tests in emergency r...

Objective: Emergency departments and hospital emergency departments are important due to their critical role in providing urgent medical care to patients in dire need of medical interventions. Checking bottlenecks in new conditions and planning to reduce bed occupancy and hospitalization is needed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the patient’s chief complain...

This paper introduces the problem of scheduling emergency room physicians. We interviewed physicians from six hospitals in the greater Montreal, Canada area, in order to understand the emergency room scheduling problem. Extracting the real scheduling problem is difficult because physician working conditions are based on informal mutual cooperation which is usually not documented. We present the...

179 SMALLPOX, ERADICATED WORLDWIDE IN THE 1970s, has reemerged as a possible bioterror threat.1 Following the events of 9/11 and the subsequent anthrax poisonings, experts’ concerns heightened over the use of smallpox as a bioterror agent because it is transmitted easily from person to person. The population is immunologically susceptible, since U.S. civilians were last vaccinated more than 3 d...

when a child presented with decreased level of consciousness in the emergency room, taking the right approach is one of the most important skills that every emergency physician should have. ideally, there should be a defined diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm in the emergency room for managing these children in order to minimize difficulties diagnostically and maximize time spent helping the ...