Presurgical risk factors for late extubation in medicare recipients after cardiac surgery

Article Abstract:

A research was conducted to develop and validate a probability model for prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) utilizing selected presurgical patient characteristics. The results reflect that, older age, urgent or emergent preoperative status, and prior coronary artery bypass grafting surgery (CABGS) are risk factors for prolonged MV, which have been consistently identified in combined adult and older adult samples.

Services information, Services, Risk factors, Artificial respiration, Mechanical ventilation, Medicare, Cardiology

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Backrest angle and cardiac output measurement in critically ill patients

Article Abstract:

A study was conducted, with the convenience samples from the participants, to compare the effects of varying degrees of backrest elevation on continuous cardiac output measurements, in critically ill patients at some head-of-bed angles. The result from the study reveals no indication of the overall significant differences in continuous cardiac index values.

Care and treatment, Cardiac output, Critically ill

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Sleep is related to physical function and emotional well-being after cardiac surgery

Article Abstract:

A study is conducted to examine the relations of sleep patterns to physical function and emotional well-being 4 and 8 weeks after cardiac surgery. The results propose that sleep contributes to both physical functional and emotional well-being 4 and 8 week after cardiac surgery.

New York, Patient outcomes, Influence, Cardiac patients, Sleep stages

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