Despite the reduction of mortality rate in the past years, coronary artery diseases (CADs) are the main reason of death in the world. Many factors including changes in nurses and medical staffs, numbers of beds influence the mortality rate of patients admitted in holidays and night time. The objectives of this study were to clarify the association between mortality rate and off-hours and holida...

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 administ...

A 67-years old woman with no cardiac past history was presented postoperatively after elective surgery for pertrochanteric femur fracture with dyspnea, hypotension, pulmonary congestion, oliguria and tachycardia. Cardiogenic shock was suspected and she was transferred to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) and treated as such with diuretic and an inotropic agent. No improvement occurred and her condit...

the monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (adrs) in hospitals aims to identify and quantify the risks associated with the use of drugs. the present study was performed to characterize the rate and the pattern of adrs, due to cardiovascular drugs and anticoagulants, in a tertiary care teaching hospital. for this purpose, all the patients treated with cardiovascular drugs and anticoa...

A shift work schedule is extremely important to obtain the optimum result of allocation since it involves 24 hours continuous services. Every nurse could not avoid their services are very towards patients in hospital. The major objective study propose a cyclical scheduling Coronary Care Unit (CCU) at Shah Alam hospital using Goal Programming. It help head spend less effort on building new sched...

Routinely recorded electrocardiograms (ECGs) are often corrupted by different types of artefacts and many efforts have been made to enhance their quality by reducing the noise or artefacts. This paper addresses the problem of removing noise and artefacts from ECGs using Independent Component Analysis (ICA). An ICA algorithm is tested on 3−channel ECG recordings taken from human subjects, mostly...

background:the door-to-needle-time (dnt) is considered a standard time for scheduling thrombolysis for acute st-segment elevation of myocardial infarction and this time can be reduced by minimizing the delay in starting thrombolytic treatment once the patient has reached to the hospital. this study was carried out on a sample of iranian patients with acute myocardial infarction to determine the...

BackgroundWhile subclavian vein (SCV) cannulation offers many advantages over alternative sites for central venous access, ultrasound (US)-guided of the internal jugular (IJ) has become standard care in most critical settings. This is mostly attributable to higher rates mechanical complications from traditional landmark (LM)-approach SCV and widespread availability point-of-care ultrasonography...

The aim of this study is to assess the practice of heparin administration in real-life situations. This study was conducted at the coronary care unit (CCU) in one of the busiest hospitals in Kuwait; with special attention to the rate of heparin resistance, potential factor that may predict resistance or responsiveness and heparin related complications. A prospective observational study was cond...

BACKGROUND One of the major concerns in replacing creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) with cardiac troponins is the lack of evidence of the ability of troponins to estimate the size of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). We investigated the ability of a single measurement of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) at coronary care unit (CCU) discharge to estimate infarct size and assess left ventricular (LV) function ...