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A Study Of Fever Differences Following Cardiac Surgery, Cleta Phyllis Lane
A Study Of Fever Differences Following Cardiac Surgery, Cleta Phyllis Lane
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The purpose of this study was to find out whether the temperature level following heart and great vessel surgery is greater following the use of the heart-lung machine than those following closed heart surgery or cardiac and great vessel surgery with the use of hypothermia.
The method used was the descriptive survey. Data were obtained from medical records in one selected hospital. The desired number of charts was 50 for each of the three categories. The categories were identified by groups as follows:
Group I: patients having had cardiac surgery by a closed heart technique. All of the patients in …
Identification Of Emotional Needs Of Patients With Infectious Hepatitis, Elizabeth Tidmore Shafqat
Identification Of Emotional Needs Of Patients With Infectious Hepatitis, Elizabeth Tidmore Shafqat
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
It was the purpose of this study to identify the emotional needs of patients with infectious hepatitis through the use of nursing process studies. The information obtained, it was hoped, would be helpful in giving nurses better insight into the emotional needs of these patients and to give a basis for planning nursing care.
The descriptive survey was the method used; the tool, the nursing process study. Nursing care was given to six patients between the ages of 18 and 45 who had infectious hepatitis without other complications.
The nursing process studies were filled out by the investigator on each …