Quality of life in people with coronary artery disease: translation and cross-cultural adaptation of a questionnaire.

Objective: to carry out translation, cross-cultural adaptation to Portuguese and assess the reliability of the four versions of the Coronary Revascularization Outcome Questionnaire - adapted.

Methods: a methodological study of translation and cross-cultural adaptation into Portuguese, as proposed by Beaton et al., and reliability analysis, by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient and item-total correlation of the four versions of the Coronary Revascularization Outcome Questionnaire - adapted.

Decreasing length of limb immobilisation following nonelective transfemoral percutaneous coronary intervention: A randomised clinical trial.

Aims And Objectives: To assess the intensity and frequency of pain, use of analgesic drugs, and the incidence of paraesthesia, urinary retention and vascular complications upon decreasing affected limb immobilisation from 4-2 hrs after sheath removal in patients submitted to transfemoral percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Background: After sheath removal from the femoral artery following urgent or emergency PCI, patients are maintained with limb immobilisation for a mean period of 4 hr.

Design: Randomised clinical trial (RCT) based on the CONSORT guidelines.