Health Sciences

Maternal mortality in baghdad teaching hospital

Background: Maternal deaths is the death of a women while pregnant or within 42days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental cause. Objective: To study causes of maternal mortality in Baghdad teaching hospital and the possible measures that may be taken to reduce mortality rate. Study design: A retrospective study.

The perfusionist's activities in safe cardiovascular surgery

Objective: to report the experience as perfusionist in cardiovascular surgeries with emphasis on patient safety in the cardiopulmonary bypass. Methods: descriptive study of the type of experience reportabout cardiopulmonary bypass during cardiovascular surgeries in a university hospital located in the south of Brazil from July 2015 to July 2018. Results: cardiopulmonary bypass comprises a set of techniques and use of materials and equipment for the temporary replacement of the patient's cardiopulmonary functions during the main period of cardiovascular surgery.

Serum cholesterol levels in relation to serum thyroid stimulating hormone

Objective: To evaluate the relation between serum thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and cholesterol (CHL). Patients and methods: This is an interventional study on 100 patients from the period of January 2017 to December 2017. All patients completed a questionnaire including age, sex, occupation, residence, present symptoms and duration, previous medical and drugs history, previous surgical history, vaccination. Clinical and physical examination were done to all patient. Completed all investigation including laboratory and radiological investigation.

Magnitude of depression and its associated factors among people diagnosed with type ii diabetes

Introduction: Studies show that depression and diabetes may be linked. In addition, possibly increasing the risk for depression, diabetes may make symptoms of depression worse. Depressed individuals are likely to comply with diabetes self-care recommendations. It is evident that active case finding and management of depression can assist in alleviating patient suffering, and contribute to improved metabolic control, clinical outcomes and reducing the costs of patient management.

Maternal suckling: Difficulties in the mediate time after child birth

Breastfeeding is a valuable practice for the well-being of the mother and child binomial. In this way, the process of breastfeeding takes place in the mid-term puerperium and it is the nurse's experience that shows her the difficulties to breastfeed. Knowledge of the main problems faced by infants in this period benefits the incentive to exclusive breastfeeding, since they can be solved early. This study aimed to verify the difficulties found in breastfeeding in the 10 days postpartum of women residing in Imperatriz-Maranhão and attended by the Regional Maternal and Child Hospital (RMCH).

Dynamic and detailed genome model of living-things

Agenome is an organism’s complete set of genetic material that contains all information needed to build and maintain/perpetuate that organism as well as to allow it to grow and develop. In every kind of living-thing the set of inheritable structural and functional differences from other living-things is caused only by the difference in the genome. The whole (entire) biomass of an individual living-thing of all species is built by the coded directives of its genome. Genome is the transformer of nutritive substances from one form into another among all living-things.

Curcuma longa: spice or medication?

Curcuma longa (turmeric) is part of the family Zingiberaceae, grows naturally in the Indian subcontinent and tropical countries and it is very used in the Indian Ayurvedic medicine. The primary compounds of the rhizome of C. longa are curcuminoids named curcumin, bisdemethoxycurcumin, and demethoxycurcumin. Due to its anti-inflammatory effects, may be used in the treatment of many diseases. It can also exert effects as antioxidant, antimicrobial, antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial, and neuroprotective. Due to the numerous benefits of C.

Epidemiological profile of rabies in Brazil during the years 2014 to 2016

The rabies virus, since a long time ago, has been a constant concern for the world populations, due to being a potentially fatal zoonosis, affects both humans and animals. This study aimed to describe the presentation and the rabies virus epidemiology in Brazil during the years 2014, 2015 and 2016, in different animal species from both the urban cycle, and the rural cycle, in addition to the cases in humans.

Management of waste of health services: study in two hospitals of microrregião do bico do Papagaio - Tocantins, Brazil

The Plan of Waste Management of Health Services (PGRSS) can minimize the risks of work accidents and provide greater security to the hospital community, the public and the environment. Due to its characteristics, the waste of health services deserves special mention as its classification, segregation, packaging, transport, collection, storage and final arrangement.

Ent pathologies around hiv / aids: epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic aspects at the Donka National hospital

ENT pathologies in the course of HIV / AIDS infection are relatively frequent and are of concern to ENT and other health professionals. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiological profile and clinical aspects of ENT and cervico-facial pathologies in the context of HIV / AIDS infection. This was a prospective prospective study of a descriptive type over a period of six months, July to December 2012 that we collected from 131 patients. Of 572 HIV-positive patients, 131 patients had ENT pathologies with 22.9%. Female predominance was observed with a sex ratio of 1.6.