Background : Do not resuscitate (DNR) is an instruction or order not to perform any cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a patient suffering with cardiac or respiratory arrest. CPR is an effort intended to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing. On the other hand, it also could cause undesirable complications. The misunderstanding of DNR by doctors its frequently happen and still…
Cardiovascular endurance is the most important thing of physical fitness. Cardiovascular endurance can be measured by the VO2 max value. This study aims to determine the effect of running exercises on cardiovascular endurance in Pekanbaru LibuRUN runner community. The type of this research is pre-experimental analytic static group comparison. The sample were members of the Pekanbaru LibuRUN run…
Soccer athletes require good physical fitness in order to not easily get tired during training or physical exercises. The nutritional status is one of the factors which influence the physical fitness. The level of physical fitness based on the nutritional status can be measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the percentage of the body fat. This research was intended to examine the correlatio…
Soccer athletes need physical fitness in order to play well. One component of physical fitness is muscle strength. Muscle strength is defined as the ability of muscles to be able to overcome a prisoner or burden in carrying out activities. One of the most influential factors for the physical fitness level of a soccer athlete is exercise, because practice is a systematic process to maintain phys…
Muscles endurance is one component of physical fitness related to health. Exercise is one of the factors that affected muscles endurance because exercise is a systematic process for maintained physical fitness. The study is an analytical correlated study to determined the relationship between endurance of leg muscles with long practice at foot ball education training center in Pekanbaru using H…
Soccer is a form of heavy exercise. Soccer requires players to move quickly continuously. To support all of that, soccer players need physical fitness, one of which is fitness for cardiorespiratory. The cardiorespiratory fitness is defined as the maximum capacity of the heart and lungs to inhale and spread oxygen or abbreviated as VO2 Max. The higher the VO2 Max, the higher the body's resistanc…
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is a disease that caused by dengue virus with Aedes aegypti (Ae.aegypti) as the main vector. This disease is a health problem in Indonesia, including Pekanbaru city. Labuh Baru Timur district is an endemic area of DHF in Pekanbaru city. The primary strategy to controlling DHF is still based on reducing population densities of the main vector. One of the technique …
Visual acuity is very important for drivers, and visual acuity is also a legal visual requirement to get a driving license. According to WHO,visual acuity as a standard for safety driving is 6/18. The most common cause of road trafftic accident in Indonesia is because the drivers (91%). The aim of this study to identify visual acuity of commercial drivers in Pekanbaru. This study was a descript…
Anorectal malformation (ARM) is a congenital abnormality due to abnormal development of the anus embryology, rectum, and urogenital tract which is mostly diagnosed with no anus or an ectopic anal location. The incidence varies in each country with greater chance of happens in developing countries. The aims of this study is to determine the profile of ARM infants in Neonatal Care Installation of…
Tuberculosis with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) caused around 300.000 deaths in the world. HIV decreased cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) lymphocytes and this caused patients having higher risk for tuberculosis infection. The aims of this study was to know the profil of tuberculosis patients with HIV in Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) of Arifin Achmad Hospital, Riau Province, 2014…
Hypertension is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Hypertension can’t healed, but can be controlled with regular treatment. Compliance of treatment is very important for patient to achieve the goals of th treatment. One of method to measure of compliance of patient in treatment is based on medication possession ratio (MPR). Medication possession ratio (MPR) is a method of measuring the…
Hypertension is an important global health problem. In 2004 the World Health Organization established that physical activity is a modifiable strategy to overcome hypertension. In 2013 the Riskesdas estimates that the proportion of sedentary behaviour in Riau was 36,1%. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the correlation between sedentary behaviour and blood pressure in hypertensive patien…
Malignancy is a disease characterized by the abnormal cell growth and spread in the body. Types of malignancy depend on the types of body cells that turn out to be abnormal. Approval of medical procedure is the agreement given by the patient or his/her blood relative after getting a full explanation of the medical procedure that will be carried out on the patient. This research proposed to dete…
Sepsis is a serious world health problem which is reported that the incident number increases every year. Sepsis is also one of the causes that patients are hospitalized in ICU and is the highest cause of death in ICU ward. One of the therapies that support the success of sepsis medication is using antibiotics. This study aims to evaluate the appropriates use of empirical antibiotic regarding t…
Ischemic-reperfusion injury is defined by a condition of hypoperfusion in the spesific organ followed by reperfusion (reoxygenation) inducing tissue damage. Tissue damage produces reactive oxygen species (ROS) leading to oxidative stress condition. Oxidative stress mediate the lipid peroxidation reactions, harm the cell and finally facilitate the cell death. The aim of this study was to charact…
Elimination of malaria is an attempt to stop local malaria transmission in a particular geographical area. The four stages towards malaria elimination in the global malaria program are eradication, pre-elimination, elimination, and maintenance (prevention of re-transmission). Evaluation is an attempt to find out the results of malaria elimination activities in a certain period of time every six…
The skin is a place that is occupied by normal flora of bacteria. One of the regions in the skin that has the highest percentage of normal flora of bacteria is the axilla. Normal flora of bacteria growth in the axilla is affected by acidity, moisture, and surface temperature of the skin. Skin acidity is an important factor that can affect the number and type of normal flora. If the acidity of t…
Flexibility is the most important component of physical fitness that can be obtained by doing daily exercises. One of the methods that can be used to measure someone’s flexibility is by doing sit and reach test. This research aims to compare the flexibility between Pekanbaru LibuRun runner community and the students of Medical Faculty of Riau University. The type of research is pre-experiment…
Gestational hypertension is the most common hypertensive disorder induced by pregnancy. Gestational hypertension is defined by systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg at ≥ 20 weeks of gestation in the absence of proteinuria. This study aimed to describe the complications of pregnant women with gestational hypertension in Arifin Achmad Hospital, Riau Pr…
Menstruation is bleeding that occurs due to the release of endometrium in the uterus. Menstrual cycle is a complex and coordinated sequence of events involving the hypothalamus, anterior pituitary, ovary, and endometrium. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of menstrual cycle with vaginal acidity. This is an analytical study with cross sectional approach. The population of this …