Nursing diagnostics for nursing care of children with cardiac insufficiency

Abstract

Congenital cardiopathies represent 90% of heart failure and the fifth place in the national score. Cardiac insufficiency, as a clinical symptomatic complex, can lead a child to a critical state, where the human body utilizes compensatory mechanisms to keep the cardiac intake and tissue oxygen support within normal limits according, relatively, with the child’s age. The high mortality rate, in all pediatric age groups when there is not efficient and quick therapeutic measurements, shows the importance of existing health personnel and particularly nursing staff involved in the specific caring protocols in this group of patients. In order to guarantee the effectiveness of nursing interventions, it is required personnel who domain knowledge about Physiopathology, pharmacologic treatment, therapeutic and side effects, and nursing care; which should be based on the needs of the pediatric patient and leading toward a quality appeal with a scientific, human, and spiritual nursing care. Reason why, the present work has as purpose to make evident the importance in the pertinence and opportunity of the professional intervention of the nurse with the multidisciplinary health team, in the joint decision making for the suitable attention of the pediatric patient with syndrome of heart failure.