50th International Conference on Advanced Nursing Research September 10-11, 2019 Panorama Hotel Prague Milevská 7, 140 63 Praha 4, Czechia

Biography:

Song Wang is a PhD candidate at West China School of Nursing in Sichuan University. Before his PhD candidate, he was a Nursing Teacher at Bengbu Medical College, Anhui Province, PR China. His research focuses on Chronic Disease Nursing and Cancer Care. He has published more than 10 papers in reputed Chinese journals. 

Abstract:

Telephone follow-up has been widely used to improve anticoagulant treatment compliance of patients with heart valve replacement in recent years; however, its effect remains unclear. The purpose of this study was to objectively evaluate the effect of telephone follow-up, in order to provide a theoretical reference for the extended care of discharged patients with heart valve replacement. We searched the literature about randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and/or clinical controlled trials of evaluating the effect of telephone follow-up on anticoagulant treatment compliance in patients with heart valve replacement from PubMed, OVID, EBSCO, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, CNKI, and SinoMed. Two researchers independently extracted and assessed the relative data. Meta-analysis was performed using RevMan5.3 software. A total of 11 articles were included. Our results showed that, compared with the control group, the intervention group had higher average scores in the aspects of medication adherence, regular review adherence, reasonable diet adherence, and self-monitoring adherence (P<0.05); and higher proportions of patients with good medication adherence, higher ratios of patients with regular review, higher percentages of patients with reasonable diet, and higher proportions of patients doing self-monitoring (P<0.05); and lower incidence of bleeding and embolism (P<0.05). Telephone follow-up may significantly enhance anticoagulant treatment compliance in patients with heart valve replacement and reduce the incidence of complications such as bleeding and embolism. Furthermore, telephone follow-up is convenient, economical and can result in good effects rapidly; therefore, it is worth popularizing and applying. However, as the available relevant researches are limited, more rigorously designed RCTs with large samples are required.

Biography:

Vinkal Kumar is a graduate of D.A.V University of Jalandhar where he also attended his undergraduate studies. He trained at D.A.V University Medical Centre in Jalandhar. He focused on the patient treatment and reevaluated several method of therapy management dependent on cardiac type tailored to a patient’s individual patient history and efficiency of previous treatment. He has been practicing in the Department of Cardiologist. Currently, he holds certificate from the Punjab Board of Internal Medicine for Internal Medicine, Cardiology.

Abstract:

Resuscitation includes all measures that are applied to revive patients who have stopped breathing suddenly and unexpectedly due to either respiratory or cardiac failure. Cardiac arrest is one of the common causes of cardio respiratory failure. Cardiac arrest refers to a sudden state of apnoea and circulatory failure. Cardiac arrest is synonymous with the term sudden death it means that the victim’s heartbeat, circulation of blood and respiration has suddenly and unexpectedly stooped. Prompt action is vitally important for the success of cardio pulmonary resuscitation. When a person stops breathing spontaneously, his heart also stops beating. Clinical death has occurred within four to six minutes, the cells of the brain, which are sensitive to the paucity of oxygen, begin to deteriorate. If the oxygen supply is not restored, the patient suffers irreversible brain damage and biological death occurs. Only the victim of sudden death are generally resuscitated e.g.; a young healthy electrician, who suddenly receives a powerful jolt of electric current while working on a machine will undoubtedly suffer both cardiac and respiratory arrest. This person is a candidate for immediate resuscitation measures. On the other hand, an elderly person who dies from cancer does not experience a cardiac arrest. When this patient’s heart ceases beating, death comes as a natural event for which the patient and the family are prepared. Therefore this patient is not a candidate for cardio pulmonary resuscitation measures.

Biography:

Matseliso Elizabeth Yako is a Nursing Professor; she has teaching, research experience at Nursing University, supervision and administrative experience in the field of Nursing Education. She is working in King Saud Bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS), King Abdulaziz Hospital, Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs; Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She has so many publications in nursing field.

Abstract:

Context: The study was carried out in Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality (BCMM), Eastern Cape; one of the nine Provinces in South Africa.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine factors influencing folic acid/ferrous sulphate nutritional intake among pregnant teenagers in BCMM.

Materials & Methods: This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study using a sample of 300 purposively selected pregnant teenagers aged between 13-19 years, attending antennal clinic in BCMM. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Results: The results indicated that most (97.0%) participants obtained their supplements from the government clinic; took other medications (87.2%); regularly used nutritional supplements, (71.7%); agreed that folic acid and ferrous sulphate were important for pregnancy outcomes (96%); should be taken before pregnancy and after birth (68.2%) and nurses had explained the possible pregnancy complications, (71.7%). About 84.1% agreed that the medication containers were clearly labeled; and nurses had explained the side effects of folic acid/ferrous folate (60.7%) and the likely action in case of side effects occurred (56%). The majority of the participants also agreed that folic acid and ferrous sulphate are good (88%) and harmless to the unborn baby (75.3%). The majority (49.2%) did not consume dark leafy vegetables, cabbage (35.0%), liver (47.1%), beef/lamb (42.0%), fish (43.3%) and beans/legumes (36.4%). Nausea, vomiting, stomach pains, forgetting to take the supplements due to busy schedules, non-availability of the supplements in the in health facilities were the major reasons influencing the intake of folic acid and ferrous sulphate. Also, there was low consumption of iron and folate rich foods by pregnant teenagers.

Conclusion: Some pregnant teenagers did not take the supplements as recommended, while others had a diet poor in folic acid and ferrous sulphate. It is recommended that midwives and other stakeholders should emphasize the importance of taking nutritional supplements and consuming diet that rich in folic acid and ferrous sulphate during pregnancy.