Background: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of timing and techniques of tracheostomy on mortality and morbidity in cardiovascular surgery patients. Methods: Between January 2000 and October 2007, a total of 19,559 cardiac and vascular operations were performed in our hospital, and 205 of these patients (1.04%) who underwent a tracheostomy procedure were included in this retrospective study. Results: Surgical tracheostomy (ST) was employed in 134 (65.4%) and percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) in 71 (34.6%) of the cases. There were 17 complications related to all tracheostomy procedures in 15 (7.3%) patients. Bleeding, requiring surgical intervention, occurred in five (3.7%) ST patients and in one (1.4%) PT patient. Cardiac arrest related to the procedure occurred in two (1.5%) ST patients. Pneumothorax occurred in three (2.2%) ST patients and in one (1.4%) PT patient, subcutaneous emphysema in three (2.2%) ST patients and in one (1.4%) PT patient, and tracheoesophageal fistula in one (0.7%) ST patient (p > 0.05). The postoperative infection rate was significantly lower, and cooperation of the patients, postoperative patient mobilization, and oral feeding rates were higher in the early tracheostomy group. The multifactorial mortality rates of early (

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Bu çalışmanın amacı, yeni faaliyete geçen Diyarbakır Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Kliniği'nde yapılan ilk 195 kalp ameliyatının sonuçlarını değerlendirmektir. Hastalar ve Yöntem: Haziran 2009 -Haziran 2011 tarihleri arasında 195 ardışık olgu retrospektif olarak değerlendirildi. Toplam 144 vakada koroner arter bypass cerrahisi uygulanmış olup bunlardan 43 tanesi atan kalpte gerçekleştirilmiş, dört hastada eş zamanlı karotid endarterektomi yapılmıştır. Otuz yedi hastada kapak replasmanı, sekiz hastada kapak replasmanı ve eş zamanlı koroner arter baypass greftleme, dört hastada kardiyak yaralanmaya müdahale, bir hastada koroner arter baypass greftleme ve sol ventrikül anevrizma onarımı, bir hastada da sol ventrikül duvarından kist hidatik rezeksiyonu uygulanmıştır. Bulgular: Hastaların yaş ortalaması 59,3±14,1 (20-84 y) idi. Hastaların 128 tanesi erkek, 67 tanesi ise kadın idi. Hipertansiyon (%59) en sık eşlik eden hastalık olup bunu sigara (%55,4), hiperlipidemi (%54,4), kronik obstrüktif akciğer hastalığı (%33,8) ve diabetes mellitus (%30,8) takip ediyordu. Yoğun bakım ünitesinde kalma süresi ortalama 20,7±15,0 saat, ortalama hastanede kalma süresi ise 6,3±4,1 gün olarak saptandı. Hastane mortalitesi toplam 12 hastada görülmüştür (%6,15). Erken dönemde (ilk 30 gün içinde) postoperatif kanama nedeniyle beş hastada revizyon gerçekleştirilmiş olup revizyon oranı %2,56'dır. Sonuç: Kliniğimiz, Güneydoğu Anadolu Bölgesi'nin hasta yoğunluğunun en çok olduğu Diyarbakır ilinde, T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı ve koordinatör hastanemiz olan Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi'nin katkıları ile açık kalp cerrahisi uygulamalarına başlamış olup başarı ile devam etmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Yeni merkez; açık kalp cerrahisi; koroner arter bypass greftleme; kapak replasman Introduction: The aim of this article is to present the early results of 195 heart surgery procedures performed in a newly established cardiovascular clinic at Diyarbakır Training and Research Hospital. Patients and Methods: Between June 2009-June 2011, 195 consecutive patients were evaluated retrospectively. A total of 144 cases of coronary artery bypass surgery has been applied; in 43 of them beating heart was performed, in four patients simultaneous carotid endarterectomy was performed. Valve replacement was performed in 37 cases, valve replacement and concomitant coronary artery bypass surgery was performed in eight cases. Repair of cardiac injury was performed in four cases. Coronary bypass surgery and left ventricle aneurysm repair was performed in one case. One patient underwent resection of hydatid cyst of in the left ventricular wall. Results: The mean age of the patients was 59.31±14:17 (20-84 years). One hundred and twenty-eight of the patients were men, while 67 of them were women. The most common comorbidity was hypertension (59%), following smoking (55.4%), hyperlipidemia (54.4%), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (33.8%) and diabetes mellitus (30.8). Mean duration of stay in the intensive care unit was 20.76±...

Background Intensive care nurses play an important role in the management of critically ill patients including identification of cardiac arrhythmias. Interventions to improve arrhythmia identification can be expensive, time‐consuming, and are not always successful. Aims This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of using short message service (SMS) messaging to improve intensive care nurses' cardiac arrhythmia interpretation skills. Design This study was a prospective, two‐group, assessor‐blinded, randomized controlled trial with a pretest‐posttest experimental design. Methods The study was conducted from February 2020 to February 2021 for the intervention as well as the control group, in a teaching hospital in northwest Turkey. The intervention group was sent the one‐way SMS messages on cardiac arrhythmias via WhatsApp during an 8‐week period, whereas the control group did not receive any intervention. The Cardiac arrhythmias assessment questionnaire (CAAQ) was used to measure outcomes. The data were analysed using ANCOVA and an independent t‐test. Results A total of 66 intensive care nurses were randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control group. The ANCOVA analysis indicated that ICU nurses who received SMS messages about cardiac arrhythmias two times a week had significantly increased CAAQ scores (P < 0.001) with a large effect size (partial eta‐squared = 0.588). Conclusion This study concluded that using SMS messages as a training tool has a positive influence on cardiac arrhythmias interpretation skills among ICU nurses. Relevance to clinical practice Using SMS messages could be an alternative, effective, and innovative approach to improve nurses' clinical practice skills.

BACKGROUND: Diagnosis and treatment of small saphenous vein (SSV) insufficiency is of utmost importance for relieving chronic venous insufficiency symptoms. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the efficacy and safety of five different treatment approaches among patients with SSV insufficiency. DESIGN AND SETTING: Two-center retrospective clinical study, conducted at cardiovascular surgery clinics in a local training and research hospital and a state hospital. METHODS: A total of 282 extremities of 268 patients with SSV insufficiency alone who were treated for symptomatic varicose veins between January 2012 and January 2017 were included in the study. All extremities included in the study were divided into five groups as follows: high ligation + stripping; radiofrequency ablation (RFA); cyanoacrylate closure (CAC); and endovenous laser ablation (EVLA) at the wavelengths 980 nm and 1,470 nm. RESULTS: Although the recurrence rate at six months was similar among the treatment groups, we found significant differences in recurrence rates at one year, with lower rates in the CAC, RFA and 1,470 nm EVLA groups, compared with the other treatments (P = 0.005). No sural neuritis was observed in the CAC group. The pigmentation rate was higher in the two EVLA groups (980 nm and 1,470 nm). CONCLUSIONS: Our study results showed that although CAC, RFA and EVLA at 1,470 nm seemed to be effective methods for treating SSV insufficiency alone, CAC and RFA had better aesthetic results than EVLA at 1,470 nm. We consider that endovenous non-thermal techniques for treating SSV insufficiency may be preferable because of relatively low risk of nerve injury.