background : coronary artery diseases are one of the causes of early death all over the world. in developed countries, ischemic heart disease is responsible for the half of the entire mortalities; however in developing countries it is estimated from 9 million deaths per year annually 32 percent of all deaths due to coronary artery disease. acute coronary syndromes are responsible for over 250,0...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and is frequently encountered in coronary care units (CCUs). Its clinical presentation differs considerably from that of prerenal or intrinsic AKI. We used the biomarkers calprotectin and neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) and compared their utility in predicting and differentiating intrinsic AKI. This...

transfer of patients from the cardiac intensive care unit to the general ward, is one of the main reasons for anxiety. given that the transfer anxiety may be due to receive at least, inconsistent or do not receive enough information before the patients leaving the intensive care unit, therefore, this study aimed to determine the effect of information provision on anxiety levels in patients tran...

BACKGROUND Stress, strain, and fatigue at the workplace have previously not been studied in relation to acoustic conditions. AIMS To examine the influence of different acoustic conditions on the work environment and the staff in a coronary critical care unit (CCU). METHOD Psychosocial work environment data from start and end of each individual shift were obtained from three shifts (morning,...

INTRODUCTION Evaluating the pre-morbid functional status in critically ill patients is important and frequently done using the physical component score (PCS) of the Short Form 36, although this approach has its limitations. The Academic Medical Center Linear Disability Score (ALDS) is a recently developed generic item bank used to measure the disability status of patients with a broad range of ...

OBJECTIVE To improve the thrombolysis service offered by Gloucester Royal Hospital, by reducing the "door to needle time" (DTN) to 30 min (from a median of 110 min), and increasing the proportion of patients with acute myocardial infarctions receiving thrombolysis to 70% (from 58%). This would be achieved by moving the thrombolysis programme from the coronary care unit (CCU) to the accident and...

background: the related literatures revealed that there is a lack of effective patient/family education in the health care centers. several studies indicate that patients, while getting discharged from hospitals, receive insufficient information about their illness and self‑care. aims: the purpose of the study was to explore the factors influencing patient education from the perspectives of nur...

conclusions there was no meaningful relationship between the mortality rate of patients with mi who were either opium-dependent or non-opium-dependent. the number of re-hospitalizations due to heart problems was meaningfully higher in the opium-dependent patients; hence, educating people and training them on the destructive effects of opium, specifically in patients with heart conditions is hig...