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Filter by:Patients are part of a family network. When any person in a family becomes critically unwell and requires the assistance of an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), this has an impact on all members of that family. COVID-19 changed visiting for all patients in hospitals across Scotland. It is not known what effect these restrictions will have on patients' recovery, nor do we understand the impact it may have on their relatives or staff caring for them. This study will look at the implications of the visiting restrictions as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic upon patients without COVID-19 who are in the cardiothoracic ICU. It will also explore the impact of these restrictions on them, their relatives and staff. This study will be carried out within a single specialised intensive care unit in Scotland using mixed methods. The first arm of this study will use retrospective data that is routinely collected in normal clinical practice. The investigators will compare patient outcomes prior to COVID-19 with outcomes following the implementation of COVID-19 visiting restrictions. The aim is to establish if the restrictions on visiting has an impact on the duration of delirium. Delirium is an acute mental confusion and is associated with longer hospital stays and worse outcomes in this patient group. The second arm of this study involves semi-structured interviews with patients, relatives and staff that will allow deeper exploration of the issues around current visiting policy. The interviews will last approximately 1 hour and will address these issues. They will then be transcribed word for word and analysed using grounded theory, meaning the theories will develop from the data as it is analysed.
Aim: The aims of this study are 1) to determine the demand of post-acute care among patients with cardiovascular disease in China; 2) to identify the details of demands especially which have value for the post-acute care for patients with cardiovascular disease. Design: A single center prospective cohort study. Methods: Patients will be enrolled from the department of cardiology in a tertiary teaching hospital. The data on the demands of post-acute care will be collected throughout the hospitalization and discharge. Patients with cardiovascular disease will be followed up for 3 months. The study was approved by the ethics committee in August 2020. Discussion: Post-acute care is very important for the short- and long-term outcomes of the patients with cardiovascular disease. This study will provide an effective tool for the investigation of the detailed demands for post-acute care in cardiovascular disease and provide a better understanding of the demands for the patients with cardiovascular disease. Impact: In clinical practice, understanding of the demands for post-acute care of the patients with cardiovascular disease can help nurses implement effective strategies at the early stages to patients to improve the short- and long-term outcomes of the patients. The follow-up results will help us better understand the impact of a post-acute care system on patients' outcomes. Keywords: Post-acute care, Cardiovascular disease, nursing, protocol
to assess the oral mucosal alterations and their prevalence secondary to use cardiovascular drugs in a sample of Egyptian population with cardiovascular diseases .
The aim of the SPARTA trial is to clarify the impact of extending DAPT beyond 1 year after XINSORB BRS implantation by investigating the balance of risk and benefit in a broad population of treated patients.
This study is a randomized, open, single-dose, 3 period partial replicated crossover-design study to investigate the pharmacokinetic profiles and safety of CKD-333 in healthy volunteers.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of death and prescription drug use. Research on certain dietary supplements looks promising as a way to help reduce risk factors. Previous studies showed that CoQ10 levels were decreased in cardiovascular patients and worsening of mitochondrial dysfunction was observed. The overall objective of this study is to determine if supplementing with CoQ10 can reduce inflammatory risk factors in adults with cardiac surgery, independent of other dietary or physical activity changes.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in China and have become a financial burden on society under the traditional medical model. A new and sustainable medical model is needed to solve this dilemma, for which precision medicine models have great potential. Monogenic cardiovascular disease is the first field to be broken through in precision medicine at this stage, and it is also the field where precision medicine is most likely to be successfully transformed into clinical application, including genetic diagnosis, molecular typing, risk stratification, genetic interruption and individualized treatment.
Coronary heart disease and stroke are belong to the atherosclerotic vascular disease (ASCVD). When both occur at the same time, the mortality rate is 19%-37%. Especially when ischemic stroke occurs in patients with acute myocardial infarction, the mortality rate is as high as 36.5%. At present, there is a lack of co-management for the cardio-cerebrovascular diseases. Some studies have explored the disease management based on Internet +, but there are still challenges in personalized management and improving adherence. Based on Internet + 's "co-prevention and co-management" model of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, this study plans to provide personalized intervention by smartphone App to improve the patients' self-management, in order to reduce the incidence and mortality of atherosclerotic cardio-cerebrovascular events in the high-risk population of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases.
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States and other industrialized societies, and advanced age is the major risk factor for development of CVD. Advancing age appears to exert its pathological influence primarily via adverse functional and structural effects on arteries. Aging is associated with increased stiffness (reduced compliance) of large elastic arteries and impaired arterial endothelial function that is characterized by reductions in nitric oxide (NO)- mediated endothelium-dependent dilation (EDD). While several changes to arteries may contribute to age-associated increases in CVD risk; the development of endothelial dysfunction and stiffening of the large elastic arteries are among the most important contributors. Both are predictors of CV events and clinical CVD with increasing age. Although the importance of endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffening with age are well established, the initiating events of these deleterious changes are elusive.
Our group has developed a device called "Velocidad Onda de Pulso Indice Tobillo Brazo (VOPITB)" . In this device the oscillometric method is used for easily and accurately measure the pulse wave velocity PWV in the arms and legs separately, allowing new arterial stiffness indices to be studied (sum, difference, ratio, baPWV and CAVI). The aim of our study will be to validate the PWV measures by VOPITB with other references devices that measures arterial stiffness. Moreover we will perform a clinical study to assess the clinical utility of VOPITB.