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Chronically Critically Ill Pediatric Cardiac Patient: Nursing Considerations

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The syndrome of the chronically, critically ill patient is emerging as life-sustaining technologies advance healthcare delivery. The occurrence of such syndrome may include long-stay pediatric cardiac intensive care unit patients, patients on ventricular assist devices as a bridge to transplant or destination therapy, complicated heart failure patients requiring home milrinone infusions, or the advanced technologies used to support pulmonary hypertension patients in the hospital and at home. This section will describe the syndrome of the chronically, critically ill patients and their complex, interdisciplinary care needs.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Sandra Staveski

  2. Pediatric Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Elizabeth Price

  3. Heart Failure Program, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Esther Liu

  4. Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

    Elisabeth Smith

  5. Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Michelle Ogawa

  6. VAD Nurse Practitioner, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford,, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Jenna Murray

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  1. Children’s Hospital Colorado University of Colorado Denver, School of, Aurora, CO, USA

    Eduardo M. da Cruz

  2. Children's Hospital Colorado University of Colorado School of Medicin, Aurora, CO, USA

    Dunbar Ivy

  3. Department of Cardiac Surgery, German Pediatric Heart Center, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Viktor Hraska

  4. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    James Jaggers

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  1. Clinical Nurse Specialist, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Patricia Lincoln

  2. University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Sandra Staveski

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Staveski, S., Price, E., Liu, E., Smith, E., Murray, J., Ogawa, M. (2020). Chronically Critically Ill Pediatric Cardiac Patient: Nursing Considerations. In: da Cruz, E.M., Ivy, D., Hraska, V., Jaggers, J. (eds) Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4999-6_85-2

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