Assessment of Patients’ Perception of Mechanical Ventilation (Endotracheal Tube) and Intensive Care Unit Post Cardiac Surgery

Abstract

Background: Treatment and mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit may get a variety of physical
and psychological discomfort for patients.
Objectives: To assess the perception of patients about the intensive care unit (ICU) and stressful experiences
about mechanical ventilation in ICU. And identify an association between patient perceptions with
demographic characteristics.
Methodology: a descriptive study (cross-sectional study) for the purposive sample of 80 patients of postcardiac surgery (hospitalized) in Ibn Albetar and Iraqi Center of Heart Disease (Gaze AL-Hariri hospital).
Data were analyzed to achieve the goal of the study have been a questionnaire prepared according to the
literature review, it is composed of 3 parts, first part demographic data and, the information related ICU, the
second parts, stressful experiences of adult patients who received mechanical ventilation (Endotracheal
tube) (ETT) at ICU, and third parts, patient perception related to the environment at ICU. The validity of
the questionnaire through a number of experts in the college of the nursing university in Baghdad.
Results: The study showed (47.5%) of the sample was within (50-59) years, 25% of them from primary
school or less, (85%) of them the residence area was urban, the study showed that the high percentage
(62.5%) of the cardiac surgery patient was the moderate level of stressful experience during mechanical
ventilation (Endotracheal tube) (ETT) at intensive car unite (ICU) while only (10%) of patients with a
low-level of stressful experiences. The results also showed the majority (90 %) of patients with a moderate
level of the perception of patients of the intensive care unit.
Conclusions: The majority of cardiac surgery patients where moderate levels of perception of mechanical
ventilation (Endotracheal tube) (ETT) and of the ICU.