In order to prevent the complication of wound bleeding, patients who received cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery were restricted from being supine position in the bed, therefore, resulting back pain and discomfort. The purpose of this research was to explore the effect of changing positions to relieve patients' back pain when lying in bed to undergo the cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery. Quasi-experimental design was applied in this research. Participants in this research were 98 non-emergency cardiac catheterization patients in a Taipei medical center. The control group lying in bed for six hours by conventional way. Changing the lying position was provided at first hour, third and fifth hours in the experimental group, and self-observation records table was used to assess the degree of back pain, heart rate and blood pressure. The results of this research showed that the degree of back pain in control group increased as time accumulation, and the degree of back pain in the experimental group was not increased. The degree of backache had the significant difference (p<.05) on the fourth, fifth hours after the operation; however, there were no bleeding complications, heart rate and blood pressure were no significant difference in both groups. The research demonstrated that cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery could alleviate the degree of back pain by changing the lying position of patients after underwent operation, and did not affect the physiological signs and bleeding complications. It is recommended to change the lying position every two hours in patients after cardiac catheterization through femoral artery to enhance the nursing care quality.
In order to prevent the complication of wound bleeding, patients who received cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery were restricted from being supine position in the bed, therefore, resulting back pain and discomfort. The purpose of this research was to explore the effect of changing positions to relieve patients' back pain when lying in bed to undergo the cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery. Quasi-experimental design was applied in this research. Participants in this research were 98 non-emergency cardiac catheterization patients in a Taipei medical center. The control group lying in bed for six hours by conventional way. Changing the lying position was provided at first hour, third and fifth hours in the experimental group, and self-observation records table was used to assess the degree of back pain, heart rate and blood pressure. The results of this research showed that the degree of back pain in control group increased as time accumulation, and the degree of back pain in the experimental group was not increased. The degree of backache had the significant difference (p<.05) on the fourth, fifth hours after the operation; however, there were no bleeding complications, heart rate and blood pressure were no significant difference in both groups. The research demonstrated that cardiac catheterization through the femoral artery could alleviate the degree of back pain by changing the lying position of patients after underwent operation, and did not affect the physiological signs and bleeding complications. It is recommended to change the lying position every two hours in patients after cardiac catheterization through femoral artery to enhance the nursing care quality.