Patient-centred care

Person( Patient)-centred care is about treating a person receiving your hospital with dignity and respect and involving them in all decisions about their health and medical procedures. This type of care is also called ‘patient-centred care’. Your patient have the right to access healthcare when they need it. They will expect that this care supplied by doctors and nurses is safe and of high quality.

5 Active Principles of Patient-centred care.

1. Always treat your patients and families with dignity and respect. It’s important to be considered and sensitive to cultural and religious values. Healthcare professionals should treat patients as individuals, and honor their autonomy—which often means taking the time to listen to your patients’ wishes and striving to uphold them to the best of your ability what you Could.


2. Ensure patients and families are active in all aspects of care. Patients often feel powerless and vulnerable in a clinical setting. However a Nurse & doctors Can bring upfront by including them in conversations, educating them about their diagnosis and creating a care plan together, you can alleviate patients’ fears and help them feel more comfortable


3. Healthcare professional should give all the information what patients need to make informed decisions. Patient should be given time and opportunities to ask questions, and talk to carers, family and friends before any making any decisions related to treatment or surgical procedures.


4. Your patients have the right to refuse any treatment that they are not comfortable with, except when they are not able to give consent. If patient lose the capacity to make decisions, patient have the right to appoint someone to make medical decisions for him or her. 


5. Healthcare professional should explain information about care and condition, including treatment options, prognosis, potential side effects and costs. Your patient should be allowed to ask questions.

Benefits of patient-centered care

Patient-centered care offers healthcare organizations several advantages, including of them,

1. Increases patient satisfaction.

When patients feel healthcare providers are listening their needs, respect their values and communicate effectively throughout the experience, they’re more likely to provide good feedback to those providers higher on patient satisfaction. Better feedback not only help to increase hospitals reputation, but help to individual nurses and doctor's carers advancement, that create well approaching job profile.

2. Boosts organization employee morale

Better relationships with patients don’t only benefit you patients — they make work more fulfilling for healthcare professionals as well. Patient-centered care can help you build stronger bonds with the patients you care for, which can make your job a little easier.

3. Improves patient outcomes

When patients feel more involved in their care and better educated about their condition, they’re more likely to follow through with their care plan.

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Coronary Angiography

I have seen many patients come with a Atypical chest pain that could be due to clogged arteries. And your doctor mostly advice for "CAG"_Coronary Angiography that is a procedure, which is done to examine the coronary arteries of the patient’s heart.

In which contrast agent is injected in the blood stream via a catheter (thin plastic tube), which highlights the blood vessels.The blood vessels materialize in white on the angiogram as they move. Then a few X-Rays are taken for further studies about your heart.

Why Coronary Angiography Need To Be Performed?

With the following reasons coronary angiography is needed to perform like :

1. if you are going with Chest pain or any kind of discomfort.
2. if you are experiencing Unusual chest pain even when all the tests are normal.
3. if you have a recent heart attack.
4. If you have history of Coronary thrombosis or Blood clots
5. If you are going to have a surgery in which you might have high risk of getting a heart attack or other problems related to heart

Who will performs Coronary Angiography?

Coronary angiography is performed by an experienced cardiologist with a radiographer in Cath-Lab which is looks like a operation theater and there will be a nurse who stays with the patient.

Few Questions You Should Ask To Your Doctor?

1. What information will you get from the angiogram.
2. What risks can I expect from undergoing an angiogram?
3. Where will the catheter be inserted (Artery in the groin or wrist)?
4. What will be limitations after the procedure? 

How long does it take?

Usually it takes 30 to 60 minutes to be performed. It depends on how complex the examination is. Furthermore, the patient may be required to stay in the hospital for up to 6 to 8 hours after the procedure completed.

How to Care at Home ?

After you return to your home, you may notice a bruise in the area where catheter is inserted. It is not any warning sign to report your doctor, even if the bruising area is large. Usually, it will clears up with a period of one to three weeks.

You should call to your doctor or nurse if you have

1. Bleeding, drainage, or painful swelling at the catheter insertion site
2. Swelling or weakness and/or numbness in the leg or arm in which the catheter was inserted
3. Weakness of the arm and leg after period of time
4. fever

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Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training

What if I tell you that you do not need to take your Blood pressure Medication, not too necessary working out for hours and lifting a single weight or jogging a single step to lower your BP and many Cardiac Risk. Yes that is possible.

So here I am Akash Vareya and I am an Registered Nurse working with India is top leading Healthcare Company, here now I will suggest you to think about IMST. New research introduces IMST that might improve blood pressure, lower heart attack risk and improve cognitive ability.

What Is IMST ?

This is 5 Minutes Breathing Exercises technique is called Inspiratory Muscle Strength Training ( IMST ). It's a technique using a hand held device  provides resistance.you need a device called an inspiratory muscle trainer ( IMST ) that you need to put in your mouth—while plugging your nose, you suck hard through a straw which sucks back. that you can do quickly in your home or office, it is very beneficial to lower blood pressure and improve cognitive ability.

How Can 5 Minutes IMST Technique lower Your Blood Pressure ?

Initially IMST developed it for people with respiratory problems such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, bronchitis or when patients come out of the ventilators support.

In a 6-week trial study on the effects of IMST Participants were divided into 2 group , first group given a task to performed 30 inhalations per day and Second group advised to do daily jogging other exercises for 30 minutes later the Study revealed that the first group who were using the device also lowered systolic blood pressure by 10mmHg comparatively.

Benefits Of IMST

The goal is to develop time-efficient evidence-based interventions for those people who have hectic schedules. people can accept as a part of their everyday lifestyle. People won’t have time for 30 minutes of exercise, but perhaps they do have five minutes and in this 5 minutes they can take benefits of it.

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