background burn patients experience high levels of predictable anxiety during dressing changes while anti-anxiety drugs cannot control these anxieties. the nurses can limit the side effects of medications by undertaking complementary therapies. hand pressure massage was introduced as a technique that can reduce these anxieties. this study aimed to investigate the effect of hand pressure massage...

background: nonspecific symptoms are common in all areas of medicine. patients and caregivers can be frustrated when an illness cannot be reduced to a discrete pathophysiological process that corresponds with the symptoms. we therefore asked the following questions: 1) which demographic factors and psychological comorbidities are associated with change from an initial diagnosis of nonspecific a...

background tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy is one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide, especially for children. oral honey administration following tonsillectomy in pediatric cases may reduce the need for analgesics via relieving postoperative pain. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of honey on the incidence and severity of postopera...

abstract several medications have been proposed as the first line drugs in the treatment of migraine attack. however, the low efficacy, potential complications of medications and the intolerance of some patients for oral route due to nausea and vomiting establish a difficult situation in some migraine patients. this report describes a dramatic pain relief with 60 mg of intravenous propofol in a...

background: recent studies have shown a positive correlation between helicobacter pylori infection and migraine headache. the aim of this study was to evaluate the role of h. pylori infection in migraine headache with (ma) and without aura (mo). methods: this is a case-control study containing information on 84 patients (including ma, mo) and 49 healthy individuals . the enzyme-linked immunosor...

hydropneumothorax denotes concurrent presence of pneumothorax and hydrothorax in the pleural space, which can be a fatal situation. in this study, we presented the case of a 35-year-old male with history of progressive pleuritic chest pain 30 days before admission with idiopathic hydropneumothorax and spontaneous pneumomediastinum

background & aim: the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the pain of patients with spondylolisthesis who had undergone either of the surgery techniques: posterolateral fusion (plf) or posterior lumbar interbody fusion (plif). methods & materials/patients: in a prospective observational study, 102 surgical candidates with low grade degenerative and isthmic spondylolisthesis were e...

abstract background: application of a reliable and authentic behavioral tool for measuring patients’ pain, hospitalized in intensive care units who are not able to establish relationship, is needed severely. therefore, this study is conducted with the aim of validating critical care pain observation tool (cpot) in patients hospitalized in surgical wards. materials and methods: cpot was first tr...

introduction: the aim of this study is to compare the efficacy of epidural versus entonox methods for labor analgesia in nulliparous women.  methods: this randomized controlled trial was performed on 84 nulliparous women with - pregnancy admitted to imam reza hospital in 10 may 2010- 10 may 2011.  they were randomly divided into two groups 42 women inhaled entonox in active phase at the beginni...