Congenital Heart Defect Resources
This webpage contains a collection of bedside resources for the practitioner who is providing bedside nursing care for children and adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). These patients may be hospitalized in either an adult or pediatric facility. These Care Resources include summaries of congenital heart defects with surgical interventions/repairs and potential/actual complications that may be encountered in infancy, childhood and during adulthood with CHD. These resources have been developed by a group of advance practice nurses from around the country with the goal of providing a quick, comprehensive overview of the bedside care for the nurse at the point of care. Each topic in this outline may be opened, printed, and taken to the bedside for quick reference or serve as a guideline for caring with children and adults with CHD. Every effort has been made to provide the most current, up-to-date practice recommendations however institutional differences may occur.
Editors:
Dorothy M Beke, MS, RN, CPNP-PC/AC
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Mechanical Circulatory Support Resource, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
Boston Children’s Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
Mary Rummell, MN, RN, CNS, CPNP, FAHA
Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Services
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Sandy Staveski, PhD, RN, CPNP-AC/PC, CNS, CCRN
Nurse Scientist, Research in Patient Services, Heart Institute
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Click on title below to open document. Document may be printed for personal use.
Atrioventricular Septal Defects - pdf (251.0 KB)
Coarctation of the Aorta - pdf (283.1 KB)
Congenitally Corrected TGA - pdf (240.4 KB)
Ebsteins Anomaly - pdf (124.7 KB)
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS) – single ventricle - pdf (335.6 KB)
Tetralogy of Fallot - pdf (132.1 KB)
Transposition of the Great Arteries - pdf (309.5 KB)
Tricuspid Atresia - pdf (302.1 KB)
Truncus Arteriosus - pdf (155.9 KB)