The Faculty of Nursing at Baghdad University discussed the Diploma gap stone tagged (Evidence Based Nursing Approach of Fast Track Discharge for Patients after Cardiac Surgery (for the student Mustafa Ali Sulieman.
The aim of the study is to identify factors associated with length of stay in intensive care unit after cardiac surgery, fast track discharge factors, and to explore new evidence approach of fast track discharge for patients after cardiac surgery.
The letter also included the thesis toindicated that the factors most generally associated with higher intensive care unit stay are old age, female gender, smoking, receiving bypass during Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, potential signs of infection, dysrhythmia, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, less ejection fraction, and kidney failure. Fast track included early extubation (6-8 hours after surgery) and decrease mechanical ventilation duration, low-dose opioid-based general anesthesia, and enhanced recovery after surgery pathways.
The most important recommendations reached by the study: apply the primary interventions of pre and postoperative and reduce the possibility of increasing length of stay, education of patients, and providing the necessary information, development of nursing personnel to increase skills and information and how to interact with cardiac surgery patients in all surgery phases, and critical care units health care providers should have skill and knowledge in dealing with cardiac surgery patients , and the estimate that the researcher got privilege.