Iran Journal of Nursing

  This research is a field study designed to-investigate the complication of patients, who underwent heart valve

  Surgery and were hospitalized in intensive care unit.

  In this research, the field files of those patient who had undergone surgical heart valve operation and were

  hospitalized in intensive care units in 1992, have been selected as general research documents.

  From the point of this investigation, 55 of them who were had deficiencies in their files were excluded making

  total number of selected cases 195.

  A check list was used to gatter data.

  The results of the research are shown in frequency distribution in absolute and related terms in 30 tables and

  reveal that those patients who have undergone heart valve operation have experienced side effect and in some cases

  the scale of these effects had a meaningful relation with differences in age, sex and the kind of heart valves. In some

  of the cases, there did not exist a meaningful relation between the mentioned changes. The main problems which

  arise after such surgical procedures are those related to the heart, respiration, brain and kidney. In addition

  hemorrhage and fever may occur in the course of statistical analysis it has been seen that some of the cases the

  manner of diffusion of tolls is related to each other are in need of a more deeper research and examination. As