introduction: anxiety and depression are among major problems encountered by most patients after cardiac surgery. they can have serious consequences for patients’ quality of life, physical and psychological morbidity, and follow-up treatments. accordingly, the present study was conducted to determine the status of depression and the associated factors in coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) p...

background following coronary artery bypass graft (cabg), patients are at high risk (3.2%-8.3%) for developing hospital-acquired pneumonia (hap) with mortality rate of 24% to 50%. some of routine features in patients undergoing cabg are similar to clinical criteria of center of disease control (cdc) for diagnosis of pneumonia. this may lead to over-diagnosis of pneumonia in these patients. obje...

background: dialysis patients frequently have coronary artery disease but are regarded as high risk patients for coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg). methods: between february 2002 and september 2006, seventeen dialysis-dependent patients underwent isolated cabg at our center. cabg was performed under cardiopulmonary bypass (cpb) for all the patients. all cases had been maintained on hemodia...

background: the cardioprotective effect of ischemic preconditioning has been known for many years. since the temporary ischemia in the heart may cause lethal cardiac effects, the idea of creating ischemia in organs far from the heart such as limbs was raised as remote ischemic preconditioning (ripc). we hypothesized that the extension of ripc has more cardioprotective effect in patients undergo...

background and aim: postoperative hemorrhage is a common complication following coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. warming the patient may be effective on postoperative hemorrhage and blood transfusion. the main objective of this study was to determine the effect of postoperative active warming of the patient on hemorrhage and blood transfusion after off-pump cabg surgery. methods: th...

the effect of regular physical activity at home on patients' physical status after coronary artery bypasses surgery     hemmati maslakpak m [1] *, amirian z [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , salehi sh [4]     received: 5 aug, 2011 accepted: 3 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : coronary artery disease causes mortality and disability of large part of a country's productive people. oxyg...

abstract background: after coronary artery bypass surgery, pulmonary complications and oxygenation disorders are common, which have an important role in mortality and morbidity. different methods are used for the improvement of pulmonary function and oxygenation, of which incentive spirometry (is) has been investigated here. the aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of is on arterial blo...