NURSING CARE FOR CHILDREN WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE UNDERGOING EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION THERAPY

• Autor(a) principal: Marcon Gumildes, Carolaine das Graças
• Data de Publicação: 2024
• Outros Autores: Makuch, Débora Maria Vargas, Vieira, Gabriela Doudat, Jesus, Paola Raissa de Oliveira de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Implantology and Health Sciences
• Texto Completo: https://bjihs.emnuvens.com.br/bjihs/article/view/1495
• topic: Cardiopatia congênita; Unidade de terapia intensiva cardíaca; Terapia de Oxigenação por membrana extracorpórea; Congenital heart disease; Cardiac intensive care unit; Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy

ABSTRACT   Congenital heart diseases have an incidence of 1 in every 100 live births, the majority already diagnosed in utero, so care planning for the newborn affected by the pathology becomes necessary. Cross-sectional, descriptive, documentary-type research, carried out in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of a large pediatric hospital in the state of Paraná, with the objective of analyzing the indication of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy, its benefits and mainly highlighting the assistance of Nursing care for newborns undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. In view of this research, the main results highlight the importance of providing comprehensive and complex assistance to patients undergoing ECMO, as well as adequate training of nurses and their team to manage this therapy and its peculiarities, with the aim of providing care. specific, aiming at the patient's recovery as a final result. It is therefore concluded that the patient undergoing ECMO is a critical patient who requires individualized assistance, making it crucial to carry out a care plan in sync with the active multidisciplinary team.