Background and Objective: Shivering is one of the most common problems after general anesthesia. Meperidine is the drug of choice to treat and prevent shivering, but it has dangerous side effects, particularly cardio respiratory depression. Ondansetron is another effective drug that has no dangerous side effects. The aim of this study was to compare Ondansetron and Meperidine with each other, a...

                                Aim and Background:   hypothermia is a common complication in surgeries patients and may have serious consequences in both mother and fetal in cesarean surgery. This study was implemented to assess the effect of intravenous (IV) infusion of warm fluids on decreasing hypothermia in mothers and its consequences on ne...

Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an inflammatory systemic disease that involves different organs such as heart, lungs, hematologic and musculoskletal systems, gastrointestinal tract and kidneys. Renal involvement has specific importance in disease prognosis. The present study was conducted to identify epidemiologic status, short term effects of treatment on renal involvemen...

Introduction & Objective: Spinal anesthesia offers many advantages for cesarean section delivery. But one of its disadvantages is higher incidence of hypotension. Comparison of preemptive intramuscular and intravenous ephedrine for reduction of spinal anesthesia induced hypotension during cesarean section was the aim of this study. Materials & Methods: This study was a randomized double blin...

Background: Optic neuritis is an inflammation of the optic nerve. Because of importance of vision for human, management of optic neuritis is an important issue in neurology. Objectives: This study aimed at assessing the effect of oral steroid treatment after intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone therapy on demyelinating optic neuritis. Materials & Methods: 60 Patients with first episode of acut...

Introduction: Illness, hospitalization and pain are often the first crisis that children are faced with ‎and painful procedure such as IV insertion is inevitable and the most cause of children distress. ‎Therefore proper pain treatment is one of the important goals in hospitalized children. Distraction as ‎a non-medical method is among independent nursing implementation which tends ...