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Korean Journal of Child Health Nursing 1999;5(3):340-348.
A Comparative Study between the Application Group and Non-application Group of a Sand Bag on the Surgical Region after a Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization.
Jin Kyung Han, Kyoul Ja Cho
1Seoul National University Hospital, Korea.
2Department of Nursing, Medical College Kyunghee University, Korea.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to compare degree of complication and discomfort between application & non - application of a sand bag after 3hours, 6hours, 18hours of a cardiac catheterization. The results were as follows: 1) There was no difference in a degree of occurrence of a complication and pain of the femoral punture site between application and non-application of a sand bag after the cardiac catheterization. 2) A degree of a discomfort between application and non-application of a sand bag after the cardiac catheterization recorded the highest scores in the application group of a sand bag 6 hours after the cardiac catheterization.
Key words: Cardiac catheterization; Discomfort
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