Congential Cardiac Patients – Fetus to Adult: Nursing Considerations

The Impact of Massage and Reading on Children’s Pain and Anxiety After Cardiovascular Surgery: A Pilot Study*

“…In the pediatric population, there has been limited research on the concomitant use of massage therapy for children with congenital heart disease (CHD) undergoing heart surgery. CHD is a common, complex, and life-long condition typically requiring surgery during childhood due to abnormal cardiovascular physiology [3]. As these children with CHD grow, they may require multiple surgical procedures to optimize their physiology, and they are at significant risk for developing fear of hospitalization, altered pain processing, and tolerance to opioids and benzodiazepines during subsequent hospitalizations due to repeated exposures [4].…”

Parent education discharge instruction program for care of children at home after cardiac surgery in Southern India

“…Consequently, parents require more in-depth discharge education programmes to enable them to recognise complications and manage their children’s care after hospital discharge. Upon discharge, parents are required to adhere to specific discharge instructions such as proper medication administration, provision of sufficient nutrition to augment wound healing, maintenance of appropriate activity limitations to promote sternal ossification, and application of infection-prevention practices at home to minimise the risk of surgical-site infections 1 …”