Effect of Early Ambulation Versus Late Ambulation on Patients’ Outcome among Patients Underwent Transfemoral Coronary Procedures

Abstract

Background:Cardiac Catheterization is a gold standard diagnostic test for coronary heart diseases. In order to minimize the post procedure complications, patients were restricted to prolonged bed rest that is always accompanied by back pain, urinary discomfort and vascular complications. Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the effect of early ambulation on the level of back pain, urinary discomfort and vascular complications after transfemoral coronary procedures and to find out the association between the effect of early ambulation with selected demographic variables. Method & Materials: Seventy patients who had undergone a transfemoral coronary procedures were selected as sample by using Simple Random Sampling and structured questionnaire was used to identify the demographic variable and standardized scale was used to measure the level of back pain, urinary discomfort and vascular complications among experimental and control group. Patients in the experimental group was ambulated after 8 hours of the sheath removal and patients in the control group were received an usual routine where they restricted to 24 hours bed rest in supine position with the affected leg straight and immobilized. The collected data was tabulated and analyzed by using SPSS 21Developer. Conclusion: The patients in the experimental group had significant reduction in the level of back pain, urinary discomfort and vascular complications than the control group at p<0.05.The study results revealed that the early ambulation is having an effect in reducing the level of back pain, urinary discomfort and vascular complications after the cardiac catheterization