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Revista Colombiana de Cardiología
Print version ISSN 0120-5633
Abstract
OSORIO-CASTANO, Jhon H.; CARVAJAL-URREGO, Salomón and GARCIA-PINEDA, Yasmín T.. Nursing role in the care of the patient undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Integrative review. Rev. Colomb. Cardiol. [online]. 2023, vol.30, n.2, pp.120-127. Epub May 01, 2023. ISSN 0120-5633. https://doi.org/10.24875/rccar.22000064.
Introduction:
pulmonary thromboendarterectomy is the treatment of choice and the only potentially curative option for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary arterial hypertension.
Objective:
To integrate the information available in the scientific literature on nurse involvement in pulmonary thromboendarterectomy.
Method:
integrative review for which a search of primary articles was carried out in databases such as: CUIDEN, SAGE, Springer, Scholar, Scopus, Taylor and Francis, PubMed, ScienceDirect and LILACS. Search strategies were defined in both English and Spanish, no period was established, a database was built with the information obtained and this was integrated in a narrative way.
Results:
8 articles were included, 5 of them were topics reviews. Nurse plays a critical role, participating in the different intervention phases within the surgical context, promoting the patients hemodynamic evolution; skillfully detecting problems related to cardiac output, severe changes in pulmonary pressure, ventilatory needs applied to the patient and hydroelectrolytic management; it also dominates the complications that are the cornerstone derived from the procedure.
Conclusions:
The nurse plays in the processes of understanding the diagnosis, preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phase; However, there are limitations in the production of knowledge in this event of interest from nursing.
Keywords : Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Thoracic surgery; Nursing; Perioperative nursing.