background: coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery is very traumatic and makes patients very nervous. since it is a main task of nurses to improve patients' comfort and safety, this study investigated the effect of therapeutic touch in cardiovascular patients' anxiety before cabg surgery. methods: in a controlled clinical trail study the simple random sampling was used to select 44 patient...

acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a potential complication of cardiac surgery, given that patients undergoing cabg frequently have hypoxemia and pulmonary dysfunction during initial hours after surgery. thus, ards criteria in these patients are more likely to be positive while these criteria may not match the patient`s clinical picture. we aimed to investigate frequency of rapid ons...

this study evaluates the effect of preoperative increased level of serum creatinine (cr) on early outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). 1140 patients who underwent cabg in our center were studied. patients with cr >2.25 mg/dl or preoperative dialysis and who had off-pump operations were excluded. group 1 consisted of 892 patients with normal cr (0.5-1.2 mg/dl) and group 2 ...

patients and methods this blinded clinical trial was performed on 60 patients admitted to icu following cabg. patients intubated and those under mechanical ventilation were unable to report their pain. the study population was randomly divided into two groups of control and music intervention groups (preferred music listening). in the intervention group, preferred music (including classical, in...

In this theoretical study, the effect of various types of bypass graft angles on the flow field, has been investigated specially on the temporal Wall Shear Stress (WSS) on the toe, heel and some locations on the bed of the Left Anterior Descending (LAD) artery at the anastomoses areas in the Aorto-Coronary (AC) and Coronary-Coronary (CC) bypasses. Flow fields in both bypasses with angles of...

introduction: coronary artery bypass graft can improve myocardial contractility and functional class in ischemic heart disease. materials & methods: this study was done on 200 patient’s with cabg operation during 6 months. 142 patients were men and 56 patients were women with mean age 57.7  9.2 years (36-83). ef was measured by echocardiography before & 1 week after cabg, ccsfc evaluated befor...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve patient's health-related quality of life with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. seventy patients in pre-operation were randomized into the study, with 35 patients in the experimental and 35 patients in the control group. the demographic information, sf-36 and nottingham health profile questi...