Nursing diagnoses in children with congenital heart disease: a survival analysis.
OBJECTIVE
To analyze the relationship between nursing diagnoses and survival rates in children with congenital heart disease.


METHODS
A total of 270 observations were carried out in 45 children with congenital heart disease who were followed for 15 days.


RESULTS
Differences in mean survival times were identified in children not more than 4 months of age with respect to the following diagnoses: impaired gas exchange, ineffective breathing pattern, activity intolerance, delayed growth and development, and decreased cardiac output.


CONCLUSIONS
The main diagnoses are identified early in the hospitalization period and are conditions resulting from hemodynamic alterations and prescribed medical treatment.


CONCLUSIONS
Congenital heart disease provokes serious hemodynamic alterations that generate human responses, which should be treated proactively.
Martins da Silva
Viviane
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Catholic Faculty Rainha do Sertão, Brazil.
Lopes
Marcos Venícios de Oliveira
MV
Leite de Araujo
Thelma
T
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002302:Cardiac Output; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality* / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D053208:Kaplan-Meier Estimate; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011659:Pulmonary Gas Exchange; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000209:etiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D016019:Survival Analysis; D015996:Survival Rate; D013997:Time Factors; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled