Keywords
aortic stenosis
nursing care
balloon valvuloplasty
cardiac catheterization
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Abstract
Introduction: The prognosis for aortic stenosis is grim, 90% of the patients presented syncope, angina or heart failure, which causes death within two to three years, on average. The transcatheter aortic valve implant (TAVI) emerge as an alternative treatment for this group of patients at high surgical risk, in the eighth decade of life, who have other comorbidities such as liver disease, kidney or other, plus those who are not candidates for conventional cardiac surgery. This article describes the historical background of TAVI, its indications and contraindications, complications of implant and procedure development, focusing on a number of proposed interventions for the nurse to give safe, quality care based on scientific evidence. Objective: To describe the general characteristics of TAVI, and propose nursing care of the patient undergoing this procedure for the immediate and medium term. Methods: A systematic search in PubMed, EMBASE, SciELO, Medigraphic, and Biblioteca Virtual en Salud. The search included original articles, systematized reviews and meta-analysis in English, Spanish and Portuguese from 2007 to 2013.Conclusion: TAVI offers another option for treating this group of patients; it is important that the nurse have knowledge of specific care to be offered for the recovery to be quick and interventions to be timely and secure.The journal Investigación en Enfermería: Imagen y Desarrollo is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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