INTRODUCTION Patients with coronary diseases admitted to special care unit often suffer from sleep disorders, which may cause physiological changes and adversely affect patient's health. The relationship between sleep disorders and obesity is an important factor in studies on sleep disorders and other chronic diseases in all groups, including cardiovascular diseases. Understanding this relation...

OBJECTIVES To assess the influence of the department of initial admission on the hospital management and 3-month prognosis of patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes. PATIENTS AND METHOD The data for the 4115 patients admitted to 18 hospitals in the PEPA study were compared according to the department of initial admission. RESULTS Twenty-six percent of the patients were admi...

Little information is available about the potential role of brain (type B) natriuretic peptide in patients with acute myocardial infarction. We therefore analyzed peptide levels, measured at discharge from our coronary care unit, in 56 patients admitted with a diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction. We examined peptide concentrations in the light of different features in our patients, and fou...

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...

As the United Kingdom develops services to provide 24/7 cover for primary PCI at Heart Attack Centres, the future of CCU in other acute hospitals is potentially now under threat. However, it has been clear for some time that the traditional role of CCUs has been changing, partly due to a reduction in the incidence of ST elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI), with a corresponding increase in t...

background and purpose: oxygen therapy is one of the common treatments for neonates with cardiopulmonary disease. the aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to oxygen therapy standards by nurses before, during and after using oxygen hood. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 250 cases of nursing care were evaluated before, during and after administration of oxygen hood therapy in preter...

introduction: according to world health organization (who) 2001 statistics, hearing disorders are the most common congenital disease, and the incidence rate among high-risk newborns is as much as ten times as high as that in healthy neonates. however, 78% of screening test failures are well-baby nursery babies. the joint committee on infants’ hearing (jcih) has emphasized the importance of earl...

OBJECTIVES To measure the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of providing care in a chest pain observation unit compared with routine care for patients with acute, undifferentiated chest pain. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial, with 442 days randomised to the chest pain observation unit or routine care, and cost effectiveness analysis from a health service costing perspective. SE...

background: we presumed that the surgeon himself has an impact on the results after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) as there is no unique protocol for the discharge of post-operative cardiac patients at our institution. therefore, we examined whether the surgeon himself has an impact on the intensive care unit (icu) stay of isolated cabg patients. methods: we prospectively studied a tota...

Reducing the time delay in initiating thrombolytic therapy in acute myocardial infarction is critical in maximising the functional and survival benefit. We analysed 120 consecutive admissions for thrombolytic therapy to the Coronary Care Unit. The total delay was divided into prehospital, in-hospital and Coronary Care Unit stages, and the median delays were found to be 130, 70, and 15 minutes, ...