conclusions the findings showed a positive effect of therapeutic relationship based on peplau's model on reducing anxiety of patients undergoing cabg. therefore, health care teams, including nurses, should take advantage of appropriate communication with patients in their care procedures. in that regard, peplau's communication model is recommended as a simple, low-cost, and efficient method. re...

background according to the previous studies, antihypertensive drugs should be withdrawn before surgery. nowadays it is accepted that some drugs effectively control systemic blood pressure (bp) to assure its desirable therapeutic control. objectives in this study, the effects of captopril, an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (acei), on hemodynamic changes before, during and after the cor...

background: the incidence of coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (cabg) in elderly patients has been increasing. there are contradictory reports on the early outcome of elderly coronary artery patients as compared with their young counterparts. we designed this retrospective study to address this issue. methods: w e retrospectively analyzed the results of 1489 on–pump cabg cases performed a...

background: the incidence of stroke after coronary artery bypass grafting (cabg) is between 0.9% and 6.7%, which significantly increases in-hospital and out-hospital costs. this study was designed to evaluate the prevalence of significant carotid stenosis and its risk factors in cabg. methods: in total, 2044 consecutive patients undergoing elective cabg were investigated through a pre-operative...

background: age is one of the most important factors that have consistently emerged as the most potent predictors of mortality and morbidity after coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. however, early results of cabg in young patients in comparison with elderly ones have been different in previous surveys. the aim of this study was to compare short-term mortality and morbidity in young ve...

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...