[Preoperative mood disorders in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: risk factors and postoperative morbidity in the intensive care unit].

Introduction And Objectives: To estimate the preoperative levels of anxiety and depression in patients awaiting heart surgery and to identify the risk factors associated with the development of these mood disorders. To evaluate the relationship between preoperative anxiety and depression and postoperative morbidity.

Methods: Prospective longitudinal study in a sample of 100 patients undergoing heart surgery.

[Intracranial pressure response during secretion aspiration after administration of a muscle relaxant].

Unlabelled: Aspiration of secretions is a usual nursing technique in patients undergoing mechanical ventilation that may be the cause of increased Intracranial Pressure (ICP).

Objective: This study aims to evaluate the repercussion of a muscle relaxant on ICP with secretion aspiration.

Method: Clinical trial using the same patient as case and control, performing two endotracheal aspirations in each patients, on of them after administration of a muscle relaxant (Cis-Atracurium) and another no.