Journal of Nursing & Care

A Mercy Anchala

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• Research Article
  A Study to Assess the Effect of Therapeutic Positions on Hemodynamic Parameters among Critically Ill Patients in the Intensive Care Unit at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre
  Author(s): A Mercy AnchalaA Mercy Anchala
  
  Positioning is one of the most frequently performed nursing activities in the critical care, often providing a central pivotal focus for planning other nursing activities. Currently, the concept of therapeutic positioning is emerging in trauma and critical care with the adaptation of research based positioning strategies designed to enhance or promote physiologic stability and tolerance of nursing and medical treatments. The study was aimed to determine the effect of therapeutic positions on hemodynamic parameters among critically ill patients. Experimental pre-test – post-test design was used. Samples were critically ill patients who got admitted in the C4 multi-disciplinary intensive care unit of Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre. Simple random sampling was used to select 40 samples. Hemodynamic parameters such as heart rate, respiratory rate, systolic blood pressure, diastolic b.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000348

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