conclusions physical or physiological and psychological stressors impose greater stress and are predictors of anxiety. when preparing their nursing care plan, nurses should consider these stressors that affect anxiety levels in patients undergoing cabg surgery and those hospitalized in intensive care units. patients and methods this is a descriptive-analytical study that uses a non-random conve...

background: echocardiography is one of the diagnostic tools that can be applied at the bedside, along with avoiding transporting critically ill patients. this prospective observational study was designed to assess the clinical applicability of the transthoracic echocardiography (tte) device by noncardiologist intensivists. materials and methods: intensivists performed a limited tte examination ...

conclusions the patient cost increased as the length of stay increased due to the policy of bundle pricing. results the female/male ratio was 2.55. the mean age of the 71 poisoned patients was 28.92 ± 11.51 years. most of the poisoning agents were pharmaceuticals (68 cases). among the pharmaceuticals, antidepressants were involved most often, followed by analgesics. there was no statistically s...

D elirium is an important diagnosis, both because it is challenging to manage and because it portends a poor prognosis in the hospital and beyond. Delirium is particularly prevalent in the intensive care unit (ICU) setting, where it is associated with longer hospital stays, prolonged mechanical ventilation, increased hospital costs, and increases in mortality. In fact, studies have shown the in...

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...

To improve the specificity of biochemical markers of myocardial infarction (MI) a method to measure cardiac troponin-I (CTn-I) was developed. CTn-I is a protein unique to cardiac muscle and is released after MI. Consecutive 150 patients admitted to the coronary care unit was studied. Value of CTn-I was determined in all samples. CTn-I concentration in the MI patients group was increased com...