Artikel
The path towards peace in intensive care units
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Autoren
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Zahra Abbasi Dolatabadi
- Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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Masoumeh Zakerimoghadam
- Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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Hossein Bahadorifar
- Alborz University of Medical Sciences
| Veröffentlicht: | 30. April 2018 |
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Background and Purpose: Identification of effective indices to improve ventilation parameters, helps nurses to improve these parameters, while increasing the probability of weaning the patients from mechanical ventilation. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of music therapy by nurses, as a complementary medicine, to improve patients’ respiratory status.
Methods: In this randomized, controlled, and parallel trial a total of 70 patients meeting the inclusion criteria were allocated to either intervention or control groups. Data analysis was performed through descriptive and inferential statistics by SPSS software (version 16).
Results: Comparing ventilator parameters before and after intervention revealed that music therapy leads to significant reduction in both mean respiratory rate (p-value=0.001) and peak airway pressure (p-value=0.001) in the intervention group. Music therapy in patients receiving mechanical ventilation also improved ventilator parameters more significantly than the control group.
Conclusions: Based on the results of current and previous studies, it is suggested that critical care nurses, especially in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), pay more attention to psychological care of the patients.
