Abstract Background & Aims: Increasing patients’ satisfaction with the quality of nursing services requires planning. Therefore, in the present study, Peplau model was used for planning to increase patients’ satisfaction with the quality of provided nursing services at the cardiac intensive care unit and the results were evaluated. Material & Methods: The present study was a s...

Background & Aim: Many patients with cardiovascular disease suffer from some degree of anxiety after admission to the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU). Anxiety adversely affects patients’ recovery. High levels of anxiety increases mortality risk up to three times. This study aimed to determine the effect of pre-operative supportive care plan on anxiety of patients with acute coronary syndrome after admi...

Aim and background : Hemodynamic monitoring of critical patients in intensive units is the cornstone of care. It constitutes an extensive part of care and is helpful in determination of the causes and the response to treatment of hemodynamic instability. Aim of this review articale is to investigate of the Non invasive hemodynamic monitoring in critical care units. Materials and Methods:61 art...

Introduction and purpose: Cardiovascular diseases with an increasing trend are among the leading causes of death in developed countries. Therefore, epidemiological indices in mortality are recently highlighted. In this regard, the present study aimed to determine the epidemiology of mortality and morbidity caused by cardiovascular diseases in patients admitted to the cardiac care units of Hamad...

Introduction: Cardiovascular disease is considered to be one of the most common chronic diseases in Iran and the World. Studies show that death anxiety is common among cardiac patients. There are several studies related to the effect of pharmacological and non-pharmacological methods in reducing the psychological outcomes in cardiac patients. Spiritual care program can be mentioned as one of th...