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Care Companion Program (CCP): A tool for Quality improvement of nursing services.

In the current healthcare delivery system, one of the most important roles of nurses is to educate the patient & their family members/caregivers. Today, nurses assume more and more responsibilities fo...

Implementation of Nutritional Guidelines for Critical Care Patients in Developing Countries

It is very important for us to updates our knowledge and to know new nutritional guidelines. But is it sufficient..? Because the implementation of the updated nutritional guidelines especially for cri...

Acute Kidney Injury Induced by Rhabdomyolysis

The reported incidence of acute kidney injury after rhabdomyolysis is as high as 65%1 which occurs as a result of multiple mechanisms including tubular obstruction, direct and ischemic tubular injury,...

Delay in diagnosis and treatment in lung cancer patients

82.7% (out of 1020 patients) were male, 57% wereilliterate, and 78% were of lower socio-economic status, with 78.3% having history of smoking, while among non-smoker 55% had history of passive smoking...

Polytrauma: Can be anything

Splenic trauma usually presents acutely with a distinct mechanism of injury. But in settings of polytrauma with other major injuries, it can be missed or the occurrence may be delayed1. We are present...

Tetanus

Tetanus is still a significant health hazard in developing countries, with high associated mortality. It is cause by Clostridium Tetani. This anaerobic bacillus produces Tetanospasmin which affects th...

Coagulopathy in Trauma

Worldwide ten percent of death are due to trauma, greater than that of HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. In contrast to other causes of trauma, death exsanguination occurs rapidly (median 2- 3 ...

NAT- the great wall of safety in blood transfusion

Blood transfusion is considered one of the most important therapies in modern-day medical science and most of the time it serves as a lifesaving drug. It is estimated that approximately 1-3% of any po...

Managing Pressure Ulcer, A Quality Improvement Project

Credibly drive viral infrastructures through enterprise internal or "organic" sources. Dynamically drive dynamic web services vis-a-vis synergistic niches. Uniquely empower cooperative leadership skil...

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