Intensive care nurses' compassion and patience levels and their attitude towards elderly people.

Backgrounds: Intensive care nurses' attitudes towards the elderly and their emotional readiness before giving care can have an impact on the quality of care.

Aims: The objective of this study was to investigate intensive care nurses' compassion and patience levels and their attitude towards elderly people.

Methods: 'Data Gathering Form', the 'Compassion Competence Scale', the 'Patience Scale and the University of California at Los Angeles Geriatrics Attitude (UCLA-GA) were used.

Relationship Between Intensive Care Nurses' Attitudes and Behaviors Toward End-of-Life Care and Ethical Attitudes.

Background: Nurses are in a central position to improve care for dying patients and their families by challenging current end-of-life practices in their settings. Nurses who care for such patients experience the associated ethical dilemmas. However, the relation between their attitude and behavior regarding end-of-life care and their ethical attitudes is not known.

Predictive value of the frontal QRS-T angle for a permanent pacemaker requirement in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation.

Objective: Despite recent advances, the requirement for permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) remains high. The frontal QRS-T angle (fQRS-Ta) indicates ventricular electrical instability as well as ventricular depolarization and repolarization heterogeneity. The predictive value of fQRS-Ta for the PPM requirement after TAVI is lacking.

Predictive Value of the Prognostic Nutritional Index for Long-Term Mortality in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure.

Background: Malnutrition is common in patients with advanced heart failure (HF), and both conditions have a poor prognosis.

Objectives: We sought to determine the predictive value of nutritional status using the prognostic nutritional index (PNI) for long-term mortality in patients with advanced HF.

Methods: This is a retrospective observational study.

Gender differences in early complications after STEMI and their associations with anxiety and depression.

Objective: The female gender is known to be associated with a poor outcome in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction (STEMI). Anxiety and depression are more common in women and they may contribute to the increase in early complications after STEMI. We sought to determine the gender differences in early complications after STEMI and their relationship with patients' anxiety and depression.