OBJECTIVE To determine both the incidence and impact of infectious complications of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on length of hospital stay and mortality. METHODS This is a retrospective, case-control clinical trial involving medical records review. The study population consisted of patients admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of the Hospital das Clínicas Heart Institute of the Univ...

E normous advances have been made in the overall treatment of acute myocardial infarction in the last three decades.1 Undoubtedly, the impact on mortality and morbidity has been substantial. The introduction of closed-chest DC cardioversion in the early 1960s promptly led to the development of the concept of acute coronary care, with the main focus on controlling arrhythmias.2 The concept found...

background the sitting position, rather than squatting, during defecation has been hypothesized to be a risk factor for colorectal cancer (crc). methods we conducted a case-control study to test this hypothesis. a total of 100 crc cases from two hospitals in iran and 100 control subjects, selected from the coronary care unit (ccu) of those same hospitals were selected for this study. we adminis...

Introduction: Urinary tract infection is a common nosocomial infection that has recently become difficult to treat because of the increased emergence of multi-drug resistant strains. This study aims to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration, and molecular pattern of resistance to fosfomycin in Escherichia coli isolates originated from patients hospitalized with urinary tract infection i...

Introduction: Improving quality of care is one of the challenges in health care services. In this regard, human factor is one of the important factors that affect the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess nurses’ clinical performance in Critical Care Units (CCU) in teaching and non-teaching hospitals non-teaching hospitals of Qazvin city based on the Synergy Model. Materials & Me...

BACKGROUND There is currently no effective preoperative assessment for patients undergoing kidney transplantation that is able to identify those at high perioperative risk requiring admission to critical care unit (CCU). We sought to determine if functional measures of cardiovascular reserve, in particular the anaerobic threshold (VO₂AT) could identify these patients. METHODS Adult patients w...

background according to the increase of patients with coronary artery disease, paying more attention to the quality of life seems to be important. one of the factors affecting the quality of life is spiritual health. spiritual health as one of the main aspects of health is usually ignored. objectives the current study was performed to determine the relationship between spiritual health and qual...

COMPARISON OF THE EFFECT EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION IN ANGIOGRAPHY WITH CCU ON COMPLICATIONS CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY