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The effect of hand reflexology on anxiety in patients undergoing coronary angiography: A single-blind randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2017
Background This study aimed to evaluate effects of hand reflexology on anxiety level in coronary angiography patients. Materials and methods This clinical trial recruited 80 eligible patients >6 months.
Farokhian, A., Gilasi, H., Mobini-Bidgoli, M., Taghadosi, M.   +3 more
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Perioperative Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiac Assistance in Thoracic Surgery: A Scoping Review

Artificial Organs, EarlyView.
High‐risk cardiac patients may benefit from timely temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS) implantation to provide perioperative hemodynamic stabilization and circulatory support, thus enabling them to undergo life‐saving thoracic surgery. CPB: cardiopulmonary bypass; IABP: intra‐aortic balloon pump; tMCS: temporary mechanical circulatory ...
Viviana Teresa Agosta, Jacopo D’Andria Ursoleo, Alice Bottussi, Samuele Bugo, Fabrizio Monaco   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design, Construction and Evaluation of Cardiac Massage Facilitator Device on Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation: an Innovation Report

Jorjani Biomedicine Journal, 2017
Background and Objectives: Cardiac massage is the first and most important step during Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). Effective massage restores blood flow to the brain and heart and plays a remarkable role in a successful CPR.
Akram Gazerani, Sara Shirdelzadeh, Sima Joharinia, Mohammad Ali Dashti, Mohammad Amin Younesi Herawi   +4 more
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Internal cardiac massage in dogs: a new technique proposition for emergency pericardiotomy - ligament traction [PDF]

, 2005
PURPOSE: Describe a technique of emergency pericardiotomy, named as Ligament Traction (LT), to reduce the necessary time to begin the Internal Cardiac Massage.
Aguiar, Eduardo Santiago Ventura De, Caríssimi, André Silva, Demori, Gustavo, Oliveira, Ana Néri Christo De, Pigatto, Juliana, Raiser, Alceu Gaspar, Sampaio, Diego Goulart, Schossler, João Eduardo Wallau, Weiss, Marcelo   +8 more
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Effect of Maternity Units' Organizational Levels on Maternal Birth Satisfaction: A Multicentric Cohort Study

Birth, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Maternal birth satisfaction is correlated to long‐term outcomes and is influenced by the place of birth. In Italy, most births occur in hospitals. Our study aimed to assess whether the organizational level (I vs. II) of the Maternity Unit (MU) had any impact on birth satisfaction.
Simona Fumagalli, Antonella Nespoli, Maria Panzeri, Laura Antolini, Elisabetta Colciago, Anna Adami, Matilde Maria Canepa, Elsa Del Bo, Raffaella Ferrara, Paola Agnese Mauri, Angelo Cagnacci, Marcello Ceccaroni, Carmen Dattolo, Giovanna Esposito, Massimo Piergiuseppe Franchi, Franco Gorlero, Gianpaolo Grisolia, Francesca Grosso, Agnese Lecis, Marta Mazzeo Melchionda, Virginia Michelerio, Luana Mogavino, Chiara Ogliari, Michela Ramunno, Arsenio Spinillo, Sabrina Valletta, Patrizia Vergani, Anna Locatelli   +27 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cardiac arrest attributable to dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury

Chinese Journal of Traumatology, 2017
Bradycardia is the most common form of dysrhythmia developing after disruption of the sympathetic pathway by a spinal cord injury (SCI), and it can have fatal consequences, including cardiac arrest.
Sei Won Kim, Chan Joo Park, Kyungil Kim, Yoon-Chung Kim   +3 more
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Syncope: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment 2024

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, EarlyView.
Vasovagal syncope advances in therapy. ABSTRACT Aim In light of many recent advances in the field of vasovagal syncope, a selective review has been undertaken of these developments. Methods Recent publications on the following topics were reviewed; understanding of vasovagal syncope pathophysiology, tilt‐testing methodology and interpretation, drug ...
Richard Sutton, Rose Anne Kenny, David G. Benditt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Abdominal only CPR during cardiac arrest for a patient with an LVAD during resternotomy: A case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2011
We present a case in which a patient with a previous sternotomy and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation developed cardiac arrest during resternotomy for LVAD exchange.
Sun Benjamin C, Hamlin Robert, Heard Jarrett, Rottenberg Eric M, Awad Hamdy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of MRI in term newborn hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: correlation with motor outcome [PDF]

, 2012
Objectives: To correlate the site and severity of brain lesions seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the general movements, Hammersmith scoring and motor outcome in term new-borns with ipoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.
PASQUARIELLO, ROSA
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Giants in the cold: Morphological evidence for vascular heat retention in the viscera but not the skeletal muscle of the basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Fewer than 50 of the over 30,000 extant species of fishes have developed anatomical specializations facilitating endothermy in specific body regions. The plankton‐feeding basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), traditionally classified as an ectotherm, was recently shown to have regionally endothermic traits such as centralized red muscle (RM ...
C. Antonia Klöcker, Axel Schlindwein, Martin C. Arostegui, Ingrid M. Bruvold, Joel V. Wernström, Montserrat Martin‐Armas, David W. Sims, Nicolas Straube, Andreas Altenburger, Claudia Junge   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source