Audit of the Nursing Care Standards Before Coronary Angiography in Patients Visiting Angiography

State and Trait Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Coronary Angiography

Background and Objectives: Studies have shown that patients awaiting coronary angiography (CA) are often anxious. High level of anxiety can lead to physical and psychological stress with adverse effects on organs, es‌pecially heart. There is limited information on state and trait anxiety level in these patients in the literature. This study was thus designed to investigate the level of these tw...

Glyceryl trinitrate before coronary angiography.

Audit of radiation dose to patients during coronary angiography.

BACKGROUND There is widespread concern about radiation doses imparted to patients during cardiology procedures in the medical community. The current study intends to audit and optimize radiation dose to patients undergoing coronary angiography (CA) performed using two dedicated cardiovascular machines. MATERIALS AND METHODS One hundred and forty nine patients who underwent CA are reported in ...

Anxiety levels in patients candidate for coronary artery angiography

Introduction: One of the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in coronary artery disease is coronary artery angiography. Due to the invasiveness of this method, most patients experience anxiety before it is performed. Anxiety causes physiological responses in the body that can increase the incidence of complications in these patients. This study aimed to investigate anxiety levels in patients ...

Evaluation of cancer risk of the patients undergoing coronary angiography in Yazd, Iran

Background: Coronary angiography is a commonly performed diagnostic procedure with life saving benefits for the patient. However, this procedure involves relatively high radiation dose. The purpose of this study was to determine the average effective dose of patients undergoing coronary angiography and to estimate the associated radiation risk in terms of fatal malignancy. Materials an...