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Nursing Care for Patient with Heart Failure

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Heart failure (HF) in congenital heart disease (CHD) can affect patients either as an evolution of the primary pathology or as a complication after corrective or palliative heart surgery. Extracorporeal life support (ECLS) is a strategy that substitute whole-body circulation when refractory heart failure cannot be further treated with conventional therapies. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) can be instituted as a short-term support to take time to recovery or to bridge patients to other assistance devices or heart transplantation. Ventricular assist devices (VAD), conversely, can be used for a long-term support, when recovery is unlike to be achieved in a short time and months are the target bridging time. ECMO and VAD are special topics that require a multidisciplinary team with a specific training, assuring a daily service in intensive care unit (ICU) for ECMO and in the ward or at home for VAD.

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    Mauro Cotza & Giovanni Carboni

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    Serena Francesca Flocco

  2. Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy

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  3. Health Professions Research and Development Unit, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese (MI), Italy

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  4. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Academic Center for Nursing and Midwifery, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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Cotza, M., Carboni, G. (2019). Nursing Care for Patient with Heart Failure. In: Flocco, S., Lillo, A., Dellafiore, F., Goossens, E. (eds) Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78423-6_15

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