BACKGROUND Considering the limited available resources, high cost of the helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS), and high load of trauma patients especially in our centers, a careful assessment of HEMS in our center seemed to be necessary for trauma patients. METHODS From April 2001 to September 2007, the data of all patients transferred by HEMS were extracted including: Annual number of...

Morteza Bayareh Department of Mechanical Engineering, Young researchers Club, Lamerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Lamerd, Iran Abstract The density ratio effects on the motion of a three-dimensional drop in Poiseuille flow are examined at finite Reynolds numbers using a finite difference front tracking method. The elliptic pressure equation is solved by a multi-grid method. For deformable d...

a total of 3204 abo and rh blood groups were investigated in larestan and lamerd populations, in fars province, in iran. the frequency of the a gene ranged from 16.54% to 21.96, the b gene from 15.85 to 27.77% and that of the d gene from 21.49 to 33.01% ; compared with the gene frequencies of 20.97% for the b and 28.50% for the d in the general population. it seemed that the two populations stu...

Two major concerns for cement factories are environmental aspects and production costs. The number of cement factories is increasing in Iran which from an environmental point of view is not favorable. Different pozzolans such as brick, potted clay, volcanic rocks, sedimentary rocks and rice bran were used in the cement produced by Lamerd factory in the south of Iran. Among these additives, ...

background cutaneous leishmaniasis (cl) with diverse clinical manifestations is prevalent and remains a major public health problem in iran, while its incidence has been doubled over the last decade. this study was performed for the first time in larestan, fars province, located in southern part of iran to determine infectious patterns in the reservoir hosts and sand fly vectors using parasitol...

Introduction: Activity-based costing system is one of the new systems of costing price of products and services for providing the required information for managers. It helps the users with correct and appropriate deciesions. The present study aims at determining the costing price of the services based on activity costing method in Lamerd Valiyeasr Hospital. Methods: The present study is a cr...