The Diagnostic Competence of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Prognostic Value in Patient Recovery.

Aim: To show whether the glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) levels are significantly higher in the serum of patients with mild traumatic brain injury or not.

Material And Methods: The level of serum GFAP was measured in 176 patients suffering from brain trauma. The ability of GFAP in predicting the presence of intracranial lesions and the need for neurosurgical intervention was analyzed using the area under the receiver (AUC) operating characteristic (ROC).

Intravenous furosemide vs nebulized furosemide in patients with pulmonary edema: A randomized controlled trial.

Background And Aims: Pulmonary edema is one of the most common acute respiratory disorders that diagnosis and treatment of the disease still remain as a health problem. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of intravenous furosemide and nebulized furosemide in control of the symptoms of the patients with pulmonary edem.

Methods: In this clinical trial, 80 patients were enrolled with pulmonary edema.

Effect of door-to-antibiotic time on mortality of patients with sepsis in emergency department: a prospective cohort study.

Sepsis constitutes an important cause of hospital admission with a high mortality rate. Appropriate antibiotic therapy is the cornerstone of therapy in patients with sepsis. Although numerous studies have recommended early antibiotic initiation in severe sepsis or septic shock stages of sepsis syndrome, its role in treatment of patients with sepsis who have not entered these stages remains to be investigated.