Nursing Care in Patient with Acute Myocardial Infarction

This thesis deals with the issue of acute myocardial infarction in context of prehospital, and hospital care. Specific clinical symptoms, diagnostic procedures, and treatment of acute myocardial infarction are described in the theoretical part. The part is also devoted to nursing care. Emphasis is put especially on prevention of cardiovascular diseases development. The goal is to evaluate nursing care of patients with acute myocardial infarction in prehospital, and later on, hospital care. The empirical part is divided into two sections. First contains a quantitative research, based on 2012 - 2014 statistics of Emergency Medical Service of the Pilsen Region. This statistics deals with myocardial acute infarction rate at prehospital care patients. The second section contains a qualitative research. Two case studies with different progress of patients suffering with acute myocardial infarction are studied. The result of this thesis is a description of nursing care in prehospital and hospital care of patients with acute myocardial infarction. Separate results of the thesis are summarized and compared in a discussion in the closing part of the thesis. Key words: acute myocardial infarction, interventional treatment, nursing care, nursing diagnose, interventional treatment, patient