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Abstract
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a significant health burden in the USA, affecting over a million patients each year. The fatal illness known as ACS is one of the main reasons people go to emergency rooms. Moreover, this disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide with a 25% fatality rate. Unstable angina (UA), non-ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), or ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are all grouped together under the term ACS. The aim of the present study is to determine the effectiveness of foot massage on pulmonary parameters among patients with acute coronary syndrome. A quasi-experimental study was conducted in Karbala center for cardiac diseases and surgery from December 25th 2023, to May 11th 2024. The sampling of a non-probability purposive contained 60 patients with severe coronary syndrome; the sampling separated into groups of intervention and control. At the group of intervention, the patients are instructed to performed four-step foot massage similarly 5 minutes for each foot. While at the group of control, the patients just take the treatment of routine medical. The pulmonary parameters were checked in the two groups before, after 5 min, and 10 min after the foot massage. The mechanism of study contained of two parts: the one part inclusive clinical data and the socio demographics of patient, and the part two was used to evaluate the pulmonary parameters by use the physiological parameters chick list. Statistical tests were conducted using the software SPSS for Microsoft Windows version 24, with a level of significance of 5% (p value < 0.05). That are a significant statistical differences between the mean of the pulmonary parameters readings for the study group while there is no significant statistical difference between the mean of the readings of the pulmonary parameters for the control group. The study found that the foot massage is effective for improving the respiratory rate and oxygen saturation (SPO2).