Foot Soak Therapy with Salt Water to Decrease Blood Pressure of Pre-Operative Cataract Patients with Hypertension

Abstract

Cataract is a pathological condition of the lens where the lens becomes blurred due to hydration of the lens fluid or the denaturation of the lens protein so that the view is  distorted. Preoperative management of untreated hypertensive patients or in patients with poorly controlled hypertension tends to have an increased risk of intraoperative myocardial ischemia, arrhythmias, or even hemodynamic instability and eye blood vessel rupture in preoperative cataract patients. Current research was done to determine the effectiveness of foot soaking on the blood pressure of preoperative cataract patients with hypertension at William Booth General Hospital Semarang. This study used a Quasi-Experimental research with a two-group pretest-posttest design with a sample size of 32 preoperative cataract patients with hypertension taken purposively. Foot soak therapy was given in the morning for 2 hours preoperatively. Based on the Mann U-Whitney Test, the results obtained P-value at systolic 0.035 and 0.042 diastolic (> 0.05). The decision was that Ha was accepted and Ho was rejected, which means that there was a difference in the effectiveness of giving foot soaks to blood pressure in patients with preoperative cataracts with hypertension at William Booth Hospital Semarang. Therefore, it can be summed up that there was a difference in the effectiveness of a warm foot bath and a warm foot bath with a salt mixture on blood pressure.