Intensive & critical care nursing : the official journal of the British Association of Critical Care Nurses
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Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Jun 2020
Randomized Controlled TrialThe effects of preoperative education of cardiac patients on haemodynamic parameters, comfort, anxiety and patient-ventilator synchrony: A randomised, controlled trial.
Patients on mechanical ventilation are likely to suffer stress, which may lead to problems of patient-ventilator synchrony, anxiety, haemodynamic instability and decrease in comfort levels. ⋯ Compared to the participants in the control group, the participants in the intervention group who received education had higher patient-ventilator synchrony, comfort and haemodynamic stability levels, as well as lower anxiety levels when they were under mechanical ventilation, showing that results were better in the intervention group than the control group.