Satisfaction of Patients and Physicians with Telehealth Services during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Objectives: The rapid spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) posed significant challenges to healthcare systems, prompting the widespread adoption of telehealth to provide medical services while minimizing the risk of virus transmission. This study aimed to assess the satisfaction rates of both patients and physicians with telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: Searches were conducted in the Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus databases from January 1, 2020, to January 1, 2023.

Telemonitoring in patients with asthma: a systematic review.

Background: Monitoring and managing asthma using technology can help increase patient adherence and achieve better asthma control. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of telemonitoring using smartphones and telephone communication compared to usual outpatient clinical evaluation in patients with asthma.

Data Sources: This systematic review was conducted in 2023.

Follow-Up of Coronavirus Infected Patients Using Telemedicine in a Referral Pulmonary Center.

Background: Telemedicine is considered an innovative approach for management and follow up of communicable diseases, when person to person contact has the risk of disease dissemination, such as the situation being experienced with corona virus infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of telemedicine in patient follow-up and patient compliance in different communication methods.

Materials And Methods: All patients discharged from a referral pulmonary hospital dedicated to coronavirus infected patients were given instructions on follow-up of symptoms.

Role of Telemedicine in Pace of Consultation and Physicians' Satisfaction in Thoracic Surgery ICU.

Background: Despite various applications of tele-ICU, there are still many questions about its costs and advantages in ICU. Some of its advantages are accelerating consultations and bringing physicians' satisfaction from tele-consultation outcomes. The aim of this study is to discuss these advantages.

High-Frequency Jet Ventilation in Nonintubated Patients.

Objectives: High-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) is a convenient method for providing ventilation during fiberoptic bronchoscopy. We describe an incipient approach of high-frequency jet ventilation via the working channel of a flexible bronchoscope for nonintubated patients who suffer from hypoxemia during bronchoscopy. The aim of this study was to test the efficacy of this incipient approach and determine the possible complications related to it.

Third study on WHO MPOWER Tobacco Control Scores in Eastern Mediterranean countries 2011-2015.

This study was conducted to quantify the implementation of the MPOWER policies and to assess any possible changes across Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) countries. In this comparative cross-sectional study based on 10 categories mentioned in MPOWER report 2015 a checklist was designed. Seven questions were scored from 0-4 and three from 0-3.

Electronic cigarette, effective or harmful for quitting smoking and respiratory health: A quantitative review papers.

Background: In recent years, electronic cigarettes (ECs) have been heavily advertised as an alternative smoking device as well as a possible cessation method. We aimed to review all published scientific literature pertaining to ECs and to present a simple conclusion about their effects for quitting smoking and respiratory health.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study with a search of PubMed, limited to English publications upto September 2014.

Comparison of Tobacco Control Programs Worldwide: A Quantitative Analysis of the 2015 World Health Organization MPOWER Report.

Background: A report of the activities of countries worldwide for six main policies to control tobacco use is published once every 2 years by the World Health Organization (WHO). Our objective was to perform a quantitative analysis for it in countries and regions to make a simple view of its programs.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study by filling out a validated checklist from the 2015 WHO Report (MPOWER).

Key Policy Makers' Awareness of Tobacco Taxation Effectiveness through a Sensitization Program.

The implementation of 5 of the 6 WHO MPOWER program in Iran is satisfactory; the only notable shortcoming is the lack of tobacco taxation increases. This study was designed to increase key policy makers' awareness of tobacco taxation effectiveness through a sensitization program in Iran. This analytical and semi-experimental study in 2014 included 110 tobacco control key policy makers, who were trained and received educational materials on the importance of tobacco taxation.

Assessment of Different Quit Smoking Methods Selected by Patients in Tobacco Cessation Centers in Iran.

Background: Health systems play key roles in identifying tobacco users and providing evidence-based care to help them quit. This treatment includes different methods such as simple medical consultation, medication, and telephone counseling. To assess different quit smoking methods selected by patients in tobacco cessation centers in Iran in order to identify those that are most appropriate for the country health system.

Quit Smoking Experts' Opinions toward Quality and Results of Quit Smoking Methods Provided in Tobacco Cessation Services Centers in Iran.

Background: One of the core responsibilities of health system is to treat tobacco dependence. This treatment includes different methods such as simple medical consultation, medication, and telephone counseling. To assess physicians' opinions towards quality and result of different quit smoking methods provided in tobacco cessation services centers in Iran.

Time trend of smoking scenes in Iranian movies during the past three decades (1982-2011): a historical analysis.

Background: Evidence from the USA and elsewhere has linked smoking depictions in movies with youth smoking initiation. Prior research has not focused on depictions in films produced in the Middle East, however.

Objective: We reviewed the 10 most commercially successful Iranian films released each year over three decades (1982-2011) to determine trends in depictions of tobacco use over time.

Home spirometry: Assessment of patient compliance and satisfaction and its impact on early diagnosis of pulmonary symptoms in post-lung transplantation patients.

Telemedicine is useful in monitoring patients, and in particular those, such as lung transplant recipients, suffering from chronic illnesses. This prospective cohort study was conducted on 15 lung transplant recipients. The patients provided physicians with data from spirometry as well as their clinical respiratory symptoms via SMS messages.

Thoracoscopic lobectomy in a patient with permanent tracheostomy.

One Lung Ventilation (OLV) is the preferred method of anesthesia in the vast majority of thoracic operations, especially thoracoscopic procedures. Although double lumen endotracheal tubes are usually used to conduct OLV during thoracic operations, in patients with permanent tracheostomy, because of short trachea, keeping these tubes safe in place is usually difficult. Thus, OLV in patients with permanent tracheostomy may be challenging or even impossible.

Use of Bispectral Index Score for Interventional Bronchoscopy Procedures.

Background: Interventional bronchoscopic procedures are novel diagnostic and therapeutic methods in pulmonology, which may be unpleasant and dangerous to the patients; therefore, sedation and in some cases general anaesthesia are recommended. But adjusting the level of sedation is a challenge. In this study we intended to define a range of bispectral index (BIS) score suitable for these procedures.

Anaesthesia Management During Interventional Bronchoscopic Procedures: Laryngeal Mask Airway or Rigid Bronchoscope.

Objective: Interventional bronchoscopy procedures are novel and effective modes of diagnosing and treating airway lesions. Airway management and ventilation are a major concern, especially when considering the fire hazard of ventilating during endobronchial thermal therapies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usage of laryngeal mask airway (LMA) compared to rigid bronchoscopy for the ventilation of patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic interventional bronchoscopy procedures.

The second study on WHO MPOWER tobacco control scores in Eastern Mediterranean Countries based on the 2013 report: improvements over two years.

Backgrond: Following MPOWER's 2011 report, a study was conducted to quantify the implementation of MPOWER tobacco control policies in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) in 2013 to assess any possible change during the last two years. 

Methods: In this cross sectional study, based on 10 categories mentioned in MPOWER 2013, a checklist was designed and its scoring was agreed upon by Iranian and international tobacco control specialists. Seven questions were scored from 0 - 4 and 3 from 0 - 3.

Prevalence and risk factors of asthma and allergic diseases in primary schoolchildren living in Bushehr, Iran: phase I, III ISAAC protocol.

Asthma and allergic diseases present a major health burden. Information on the prevalence of these diseases indicates that these diseases are increasing in various parts of the world. It was hoped that this study would be helpful to health system policy-makers in planning allergy prevention programs in the region.

A comparative study on tobacco cessation methods: a quantitative systematic review.

Background: During recent years, there have been many advances in different types of pharmacological and non-pharmacological tobacco control treatments. In this study, we aimed to identify the most effective smoking cessation methods used in quit based upon a review of the literature.

Methods: We did a search of PubMed, limited to English publications from 2000 to 2012.

Role of laryngeal mask airway in interventional bronchoscopy procedures for upper tracheal stenosis: case series.

Background: Bronchoscopic interventional procedures are novel means of treating airway lesions which are less invasive and well tolerated for patients with endo-luminal lesions, but managing the airway and oxygenating the patient in a field that is shared by both anesthesiologist and bronchoscopist is a major concern. Also in cases with subglottic and upper tracheal stenotic lesions an airway device placed inside the lumen interferes with the procedure and occasionally bears the hazard of ignition. Therefore, an airway device placing above the glottis with effective oxygenation is required.

Heart-lung transplantation in Iran: a case report.

We report our initial experience with a heart-lung transplant operation performed on a 12- year- old girl with Eisenmenger syndrome at Masih Daneshvari Teaching Hospital in Tehran, in 2009. We also outline the operative indications, anesthetic management, and postoperative complications of heart-lung transplantation. We hope that this issue on transplantation may provide an encouraging prospect for patients with end-stage cardiopulmonary disorders in Iran.

Using Home Spirometry for Follow up of Lung Transplant Recipients: "A Pilot Study".

Background: Lung transplantation is considered the ultimate treatment for some patients, but due to the specific condition of patients undergoing it, follow up is a major concern. The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of home spirometry in follow up of lung transplant recipients and early detection of complications in these patients.

Materials And Methods: A PC-based portable spirometry set was used to evaluate the well being of two lung transplant recipients on a regular daily basis for a 6-month period.

Performance assessment of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II and Simplified Acute Physiology Score II in a referral respiratory intensive care unit in Iran.

Background/purpose: Nowadays, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) and Simplified Acute Physiology Score II (SAPS II) scoring systems have drawn much attention for the evaluation and prediction of disease process in patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs). To use these scoring tools, their predicting power must be initially validated for the target patients. This study was conducted to evaluate the performance of these two scoring systems in an ICU for respiratory diseases in Iran.