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The effect of massage therapy and cryotherapy on pain and lung volume in patients undergoing open heart surgery

Not Applicable
Conditions
coronary artery bypass graft.
atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Registration Number
IRCT2015051022192N1
Lead Sponsor
Vice Chancellor for research of Zahedan University of Medical Science
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
75
Inclusion Criteria

Based on previous planning the patient underwent surgery. (Elective surgery); the patient age must be between 35 to 75 years; Personal medicines such as hypnotics, benzodiazepines, sedatives, drugs and alcohol must not be used ; The minimum pain score by visual scale of pain before intervention was 40; The history of diabetes was less than 5 years; Thorax surgery is the first patient's experience; The type of graft used for patient was saphenous vein or left mammary artery; the patient does not suffer from chronic respiratory disease; Cardiac output was more than 40% based on echocardiography performed before surgery. Exclusion criteria: Patients who had a lot of pain and did not want to be touched or to continue; The placement of Chest tube was at the time of data collection; Suffering from post-operative complications such as infection, bleeding, open wound (wound dehiscence) or uncontrolled dysrhythmia; severe emotional stress during the study; Patients who have received sedatives other than the routine sedatives or the use of analgesics was less than 4 hours before the intervention.

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain intensity. Timepoint: 10 to 15 minutes before and 10 to 15 minutes after intervention. Method of measurement: In order to determine the severity of pain visual analog scale was used.;Lung volumes. Timepoint: 10 to 15 minutes before and 10 to 15 minutes after intervention. Method of measurement: Model spirometer Spiro lab III, Tuk - MIR009, ITALY.
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
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