a bstract introduction:  admission of a family member to hospital would cause stress on other family members also. one of the most stressful treatment interventions imposing high level of  nxiety to the families of patients is when the patients are undergoing a surgery, especially a cardiac surgery. so, we decided to investigate whether recommended azkar could reduce stress, anxiety, and depres...

The cardiac risk (CR) in noncardiac surgery represents the probability of acute cardiovascular conditions appearance, assessed as perioperative complications. The most frequent perioperative complications are the acute manifestations of coronary or noncoronary ischemia; acute or exacerbated chronic heart failure (CHF); acute rhythm and conductive disorders; acute cardiac inflammatory processes;...

INTRODUCTION Danish health authorities have major concerns with regard to the risk and the quality of care of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) without onsite cardiac surgery. We report the results of the first Danish PCI centre without onsite cardiac surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 245 patients underwent 254 elective PCIs during a six-month study period. The outcome measures ...

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is a major challenge of global health. The modern treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) is based on the development of novel cardiac interventions. In 1977, the first percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) was performed, initiating the era of percutaneous revascularization. The field of cardiac intervention evolves rapidly, and the need to continuosly...

Introduction: One of the important tasks of nurses in intensivecare unit is interpretation of ECG. The use of training simulator isa new paradigm in the age of computers. This study was performedto evaluate the impact of cardiac arrhythmias simulator softwareon nurses’ learning in the subspecialty Vali-Asr Hospital in 2016.Methods: This study was conducted by quasi-experimentalrandomized Salomo...

Several studies have reported that the antioxidant properties of melatonin can provide cardiac protection through scavenging of free radicals. This study sought to investigate the efficacy of melatonin on cardiac biomarkers, myocardial-specific protein high sensitive troponin-T (hs-TnT) and creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoin...