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- Title
Complications after Thrombolytic Treatment in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Their Reflection on Nursing Practices.
- Authors
Karaman, Dilek; Yilmaz, Dilek Kara; Yilmaz, Derya Uzelli
- Abstract
Introduction: Cardiovascular disease has become one of the most common diseases in the world with the development of the industrial society. This study was conducted to examine the complications of thrombolytic treatment and their effects on nursing practices. Methods: This descriptive and observational research was carried out on 60 patients who were hospitalized with acute myocardial infraction in the coronary intensive care units of a public hospital between January, 2011 and December, 2011. In collection of the data the questionnaire developed by the researchers was used. In evaluation of the data frequency and percentage values were used in SPSS 17.0 software. Results: It was determined that the 73,3% of patients participated in the study were male, 56,7% were in between 50-69 age group; 55% were smoking and 33% had alcohol consumption habit. According to the ST localization; 60% of patients were diagnosed with inferior myocardial infraction and 70% had hypertension, the developed complications were determined in 96,7% of patients as 97% minor bleeding, 95% arrhythmia, 93,3% hypotension, 3,3% fever and 1,7 major bleeding. It was found that the 93,3% of minor bleeding complications were in intravenous failed attempt places, 16,7% gingiva, 3,3% intraocular bleeding, 15% epistaxis, 5% ecchymosis. Conclusion: Nurses were advised to follow the patients in terms of complications and to open vascular accesses more carefully on patients who will get treatment of acute myocardial infraction.
- Subjects
TURKEY; MYOCARDIAL infarction complications; ACUTE diseases; RESEARCH methodology; NURSING practice; SCIENTIFIC observation; QUESTIONNAIRES; THROMBOEMBOLISM; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1, p377
- ISSN
1791-5201
- Publication type
Article