Showing papers in "Heart & Lung in 1990"

TL;DR: Results of this study clearly indicate that not only pain but its communication and treatment were significant problems for a substantial portion of this ICU sample.

TL;DR: A literature search yielded eight articles in which replicable primary research on the needs of families of critically ill patients was reported as discussed by the authors, although individually limited by small sample size, presented similar findings.

TL;DR: The findings of this study indicate that the process of adjustment after MI is variable and incorporates four stages that include an acceptance of limitations, a refocusing on issues other than the MI, and a perceived sense of mastery.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that skin-to-skin contact is a simple, cost-effective intervention that reduces activity and state-related energy expenditure.

TL;DR: Rec rehabilitative programs attempting to facilitate physical and social reintegration of the patient after coronary artery bypass surgery should test the effects of interventions to increase self-efficacy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare and contrast the biophysical and psychosocial profile of men and women undergoing cardiac surgery (coronary artery bypass graft and valve replacement) during the perioperative and home recovery period.

TL;DR: The five nursing diagnoses that occurred most frequently across the 8-week recovery period were altered comfort: pain; ineffective coping, individual; activity intolerance; sleep pattern disturbance; and altered nutrition.

TL;DR: Seeking social support and positive reappraisal were the two most often used strategies by all parents regardless of the classification of stressors, and all of the parents used a combination of both problem- and emotion-focused forms of coping.

TL;DR: It appears that intensive care unit nurses were only moderately accurate in their assessments of critical care family needs, and implications for nursing practice, education, and research were identified.

TL;DR: The results indicate that dyspnea is accompanied by both psychologic and physiologic changes that can be targeted to assist in alleviating this distressing symptom.

TL;DR: Findings provide a basis for continued research on the effectiveness of interventions in reducing the anxiety associated with the crisis of critical illness in the family system.

TL;DR: Regardless of unit, registered nurses' perceptions of family needs are congruent, according to a questionnaire of perceived needs of families of critically ill patients.

TL;DR: It was concluded that commonly used bedside methods to test feeding tube placement often gave false reassurance that the tubes were properly positioned.

TL;DR: The rate of return to work after an acute myocardial infarction is decreased among previously working women, blue-collar workers particularly with physically strenuous jobs, and persons with emotional problems.

TL;DR: A two-group pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design was used to determine the effectiveness of a slow, deep-breathing relaxation technique in relieving postoperative pain after coronary artery bypass graft surgery.

TL;DR: In conclusion, the closed Suction method showed a higher SvO2 after endotracheal suctioning compared with the open suction method (p = 0.0001).

TL;DR: A study was conducted to explore the phenomenon of dyspnea from the point of view of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and several themes were isolated that dominated the dyspneic experience.

TL;DR: Although family visits were no more physiologically stressful than a comparative social interaction, select subsamples of patients with cardiac disease should be studied for more specific reaction patterns.

TL;DR: Results indicated that spouses perceived the pretransplant period to have a greater overall influence on their lives and relationships than did the posttransplant period, demonstrating the great impact of the waiting period on the spouse's quality of life.

TL;DR: Findings suggested that touch served to reduce arousal rather than to produce negative psychophysiologic consequences for recovery.

TL;DR: The literature on physical and psychosocial outcomes after CABG surgery is reviewed with a focus on prolongation of life, relief of angina pectoris, improvement in functional status, and return to work.

TL;DR: Nurses should expect critically ill patients to have a decrease in SvO2 of approximately 9% of baseline and small changes in heart rate after turning, and these changes should be transient, with SvO 2 and heart rate gradually returning toward baseline levels during the next 4 minutes.

TL;DR: Two samples of critical care nurses (from a secular teaching hospital and a religious-affiliated community hospital, respectively) were compared on their attitudes, concerns, and knowledge regarding the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

TL;DR: ECMO, when used as a resuscitative system, can result in increased survival in selected patients with refractory cardiogenic shock or cardiac arrest and can best be applied with patients younger than 60 years of age.

TL;DR: The main effect of time was significant for both patients' and spouses' APGAR scores and for patients' Marital Adjustment Scale scores, suggesting a pattern of response during recovery from cardiac surgery.

TL;DR: Based on the findings, the back rub, a traditional nursing measure that can provide comforting touch, represented a minor stimulus affecting heart rate and oxygen demands in most critically ill patients, however, because of the variability found inheart rate and SvO2, individual responses need to be assessed.

TL;DR: Critical care preceptors in units classified as intermediate care and emergency departments had greater levels of job satisfaction than nurses working in intensive care units and the longer the preceptor worked in critical care, the lower the level ofJob satisfaction.

TL;DR: The effects of anxiety on learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by family members of patients with cardiac disease and the benefit of teaching CPR to this group are supported.

TL;DR: A group of polypeptide growth factors, including epidermal growth factor, platelet-derived growth factor), transforming growth factor beta, and basic fibroblast growth factor have been found to promote or hasten healing in animal models and are now moving into the clinical arena where its potential for human healing must be evaluated.