Aim: The study aimed to ascertain the level of knowledge of Pressure Ulcers (PU) and their preventive measures among Nurses in Madonna University Teaching Hospital, Rivers State, Nigeria. Study Design: A descriptive survey research design was used. Methodology: The sample of the...
Purpose: This study aimed to compare the accuracy of ultrasound with simple radiography in the diagnosis of ankle fracture due to an ankle sprain. Methods: This study was performed on 36 patients with an ankle fracture due to an ankle sprain, Emergency Department of Besat Hospita...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has swept across the globe, affecting over 179 countries, with about 650,805 thousand deaths globally and over 16,341,920 million reported cases in the world. Hence, the need for novel drugs and different approaches for high quality treatment of the...
Background: There are recommended standards that must be implemented in the occupational health and safety management system for every hospital. However, there are still many hospitals that do not implement an occupational health and safety management system. This has an impact o...
Background: Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are examples of Non-Communicable Diseases (PTM) which are always in the top 10 diseases in Southeast Sulawesi. Efforts that can be made to detect and even address the factors that cause PTM early is to organize NCD Integrated Post ....
Background: Malaria is one of the most several pathogenic diseases in endemic areas of the world, particularly in Africa. The causative parasites have developed resistance to orthodox drugs over the years, thus the need for herbal remedy. Aim: This study is aimed at assessing the...
Aim: Spurred on by the prevailing dearth of data from Nigeria and West Africa, in the context of reports suggesting racially influenced phenotypic variation in the manifestation of myasthenia gravis, this study explored the clinical presentation of patients with myasthenia gravis...
Introduction: Moscow scale is an appropriate scale for the evaluation of the level of consciousness in patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU). This study aimed to standardize the Moscow scale in patients hospitalized in ICU based on Iran's demographics information. M...
Background: Clinical wastes are potentially toxic elements (PTE) and harmful microorganisms which can infect health workers and their patients. They comprise both biodegradable and non-biodegradable elements. Clinical waste management (CWM) is the control of all waste generated i...
Radiation protection and safety has been a major concern of many national and international bodies because of the potential hazardous effects associated with ionizing radiation if not properly controlled. However, no much research has been done on the compliance of Radiographers...
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the toxicological effects of overdose of Action Bitters and Goko Cleanser on hepatic, renal and haematological indices. Methodology: Thirty-five (35) male albino wistar rats were divided into seven groups of five rats each. The six treat...
Background: One of the real concerns of society, especially students and teachers, in particular, is the issue of student assessment in content learning theory. If the assessment of these questions cannot asses students' knowledge, it discourages active students, and, on the othe...
Introduction and Objectives: There has been a gradual decline in interest in postmortem audit worldwide despite the enormous potential value of the autopsies. In many paediatric centres across Nigeria, there is no policy providing the use of autopsy statistics in the main busines...
Aim: This study investigated the toxicological and anti-inflammatory effects of some anti-arthritic herbal formulations. Methodology: Forty-nine (49) female albino wistar rats grouped into seven groups of seven rats per group, were used for this study. Group A was the negative co...
In this study, the quality characteristics of mineral elements, vitamins and amino acids of 39 common buckwheat samples from the eastern, central and western regions of Loess Plateau were analyzed and compared and then effective indicators were selected for discrimination geograp...