Nursing diagnoses in the perioperative period of cardiac surgery

Abstract

The identification of nursing diagnoses most commonly reported in the literature in the perioperative period of cardiac surgery can assist nurses in this context of clinical practice to plan the nursing care towards the individual needs of each patient, contributing to the implementation of rapid and effective actions to solve identified problems. An integrative literature review aimed at identifying nursing diagnoses in the perioperative period of cardiac surgery was developed. The search was performed in the LILACS and SCIELO databases with the descriptors “nursing diagnosis”, “nursing care”, and “cardiac surgery” or “thoracic surgery”. Thirteen studies were included, which identified 17 main preoperative diagnoses, 10 main intraoperative diagnoses, and 28 main post-operative diagnoses. Different studies often found the same diagnosis in each period, which reinforces a profile with which nurses can expect to deal with, and on which they must intervene to obtain the best results. Additional studies on diagnostic accuracy and validity of such diagnoses are expected.