The Effects of Change Position on Arterial Oxygen Saturation in Patients with Unilateral Lung Disease who were Hospitalized in Imam Khomeini Hospital if Tabriz in 1994.
چکیده
Abstract: This research is a quasi –experimental study, which has been performed in order to investigate the effects of change position on arterial oxygen saturation in patients with unilateral lung disease who were hospitalized in Imam Khomeini Hospital if Tabriz in 1994. It consists of one goal and five special objectives which are about effects of lateral positing on Arterial oxygen saturation, pulse and respiratory rate. In this research 45 patients with unilateral lung disease consisted of (pneumonia, atelectasis, tuberculosis and neoplasia) which have admitted in respiratory medical surgical ward, were chosen. The sampling method was randomly and purposive sampling respectively. The data were collected through questionnaire was made in two parts: 1) Demographics 2) The base –Line data. Check list consisted of arterial oxygen saturation, pulse rate and respiratory rate, before and 15 minutes after change position. In order to achieve the research objectives descriptive and inferential statistics have been used. Results have been presented on 42 tables and 10 charts. The findings of this study showed with 99% confidentiality that change position can influence arterial oxygen saturation but did not reveal significant change on pulse and respiratory rate. In addition the results did not reveal significant correlation between changes of arterial oxygen saturation and demographics at the end the researcher has recommended for implicating the findings for further researchers on the bases of results of research. Hoping to help a little advance in performing better nursing care for patients with lung diseases.