
Ehsan ModirianQazvin University of Medical Sciences | QUMS · Department of Emergency Medicine
Ehsan Modirian
MD, MPH
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August 2010 - October 2013
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Publications (32)
Environmental contamination of vegetables and fruits with intestinal protozoan trophozoites, cysts and oocysts is a means of transmitting parasitic agents of public health importance. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the global prevalence of intestinal protozoan parasite contamination in vegetables and fruits...
Accidental ingestion of infective stages of helminths through consumption of contaminated vegetables and fruits causes a wide range of food-borne diseases in humans. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the global incidence of helminthic contamination of vegetables, cucurbits and fruits. Several databases (Science Direct, Web of Scien...
| ---> BACKGROUND: Intubation of critically ill patients is one of the increasing emergency procedures. we designed this study to determine age and sex-related mortality rates after emergency intubation. | ---> METHODS: This retrospective study collected and analyzed non-trauma intubated patients in a referral hospital from the years 2017 to 2019 a...
Background Due to the importance of investigating the causes of trauma and functional indicators of pre-hospital emergency care. Objective This study aims to evaluate the outcomes of trauma and their relationship with pre-hospital time intervals in patients admitted to Shahid Rajaei Hospital in Qazvin, Iran. Methods In this descriptive study conduc...
Pneumocephalus refers to the presence of air in the cranial cavity. Trauma is the most common cause of acquired pneumocephalus. Tension pneumocephalus occurs when intracranial accumulation of air causes high pressure on the brain as compared to extracranial pressure. Tension pneumocephalus is usually acute, and causes neurological symptoms, and its...
Objective
In Iran, road traffic accidents were responsible for 14716 deaths in 2015. This study aimed to compare the initial resuscitation of traumatically injured patients to the internationally recognized ATLS standards.
Materials and methods
As a cross-sectional study, 506 traumatically injured patients who were referred to the tertiary referra...
Objective:
To evaluate the analgesic efficacy of intranasal desmopressin alone vs intravenous paracetamol in patients referred to the emergency department with renal colic.
Design:
Randomized clinical trial.
Setting:
This study was conducted in the emergency unit of a university hospital.
Subjects:
Patients referred to the emergency room wit...
Background: Due to the importance of investigating the causes of trauma and functional indicators of pre-hospital emergency care. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the outcomes of trauma and their relationship with pre-hospital time intervals in patients admitted to Shahid Rajaei Hospital in Qazvin, Iran. Methods: In this descriptive study con...
Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States of America and almost 100000 patients lose their life due to medical errors every year.
Background
Upper limb amputations are one of the unpleasant war injuries that armed forces are exposed to frequently.The present study aimed to assess the musculoskeletal and peripheral nervous systems in Iraq-Iran war veterans with bilateral upper extremity amputation. Methods
The study consisted of taking a history and clinical examinations inclu...
Introduction
Intra-abdominal hemorrhage due to blunt abdominal trauma is a major cause of trauma-related mortality. Therefore, any action taken for facilitating the diagnosis of intra-abdominal hemorrhage could save the lives of patients more effectively. The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of focused assessment with sonography for...
Introduction
Serum vitamin D concentration is a major contributing factor for increasing the risk of fall and fall-related injuries in older adults. However, when prescribed and supplemented for these populations, the outcomes are controversial, and in several cases no improvement has been reported in reducing the risk of recurrent falls. This stud...
Introduction:
This study aimed to describe the mental health status of sulfur mustard-exposed survivors suffering from severe respiratory and ophthalmological problems.
Methods:
Out of 450 invited Iran-Iraq War survivors of sulfur mustard exposure with severe symptoms, 350 participated in this cross-sectional study. Mental health status was asse...
Objective:
To determine the frequency of phantom limb sensation (PLS) and phantom limb pain (PLP) in children and young adults suffering landmine-related amputation.
Materials & methods:
All youths with amputation due to landmine explosions participated in this study. The proportions of patients with phantom limb sensation/pain, intensity and fr...
Background:
To describe the mental health status of 78 child and adolescent survivors of post-war landmine explosions.
Methods:
Child and adolescent survivors of landmine explosions who were younger than 18 years old at the time of the study were identified and enrolled in this study. The mental health status of the participants was assessed by...
Background:
Despite landmine-risk education programs and extensive demining activities on the Western border of Iran, landmines and unexploded ordnance (UXOs) still cause civilian and child casualties three decades after the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988). The objective of this study was to understand the epidemiological patterns and risk factors of in...
Introduction: Physical disability, especially in childhood and adolescence can cause major psychological problems such as depression and anxiety. Burden of landmine in western border cities of Iran caused many disabled survivors through the years after Iran-Iraq war. Aims: To investigate the potential association of disability of activities of dail...
Background
Although the use of sterile gloves for minor and major surgical repairs is the current standard of care, use of non-sterile and clean gloves has been shown to be safe in certain procedures. In this study, we compared the infection rates of contaminated lacerations repaired with sterile versus non-sterile gloves.
Materials and methods
A...
Introduction:
Sedation in children can be a challenge for emergency physicians, which demands for selecting an effective medication with few complications and good analgesic effects. This study has been performed to evaluate the adverse effects of ketamine while using either atropine or placebo in emergency departments.
Methods:
This is a prospe...
Introduction. Endotracheal tube (ETT) cuff pressure is not usually measured by manometer and the providers rely on their estimation of cuff pressure by palpating the pilot balloon. In this study, we evaluated the pressure of ETT cuffs inserted by emergency physicians or anesthesiologists, and assessed the accuracy of manual pressure testing in diff...
Emergency department manages several kinds of wounds including simple, non-bite traumatic wounds and lacerations. Prophylactic antibiotic therapy is one of pre-scribed treatment in these conditions. We aimed to compare the clinical efficacy of the two day regimen of prophylactic antimicrobial agents with the five day regimen in simple traumatic but...
Chronic pain after spinal cord injury (SCI) is a common and considerable complication and may continue for a long time.
During a 2-year survey, 13.9 +/- 3.0 years after injury, a total of 1,295 war-related spinal cord injury survivors were thoroughly examined by physical and rehabilitation specialists and all relevant data, consisting of type and s...
Sulfur mustard (SM), also known as mustard gas, is an alkylating compound used as a chemical weapon in World War I and by Iraqi forces against Iranians and indigenous Iraqi Kurds during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s. Although SM is a proven carcinogen there are conflicting views regarding the carcinogenicity of a single exposure. The present study...
To evaluate the prevalence of neuroma in bilateral upper limb amputees and investigate the effect of level of amputation on their pain, 86 patients with bilateral upper limb amputation were thoroughly examined by an orthopedic surgeon. Of 172 bilateral amputated upper limbs (86 victims of war) 17.1+/-6.1 years after injury, physical examination rev...
To alert health professionals on presence and extent of phantom pain and sensation following bilateral upper limb amputation.
Of a total of 140 war-related bilateral upper limb amputees in Iran, 103 subjects were thoroughly examined in this cross-sectional study by a physical medicine specialist. The patients were questioned for the presence of pha...
In a cross-sectional study, 132 male veterans with spinal cord injury (average age 37.4 years; injuries sustained from 5 to 23 years ago), underwent dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, by LUNAR, to define bone mineral density (BMD) in second to fourth lumbar vertebrae and the neck of the right femur (g/cm(2)). The results showed that bone minerals in...
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Question (1)
If you work in a crowded emergency unit, you would face a growing population of aged patients in the emergency department. As a consequence of longevity and physiologic changes of the elderly, numerous health conditions arise that need more attention and take more time for treatment and discharge education to prevent further problems! If you don't pay enough attention to the problems like polypharmacy, frailty, difficulty in the activity of daily living, and so on, the patient would come back sooner with more complicated situations!
What do you do in that situation?
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