Nursing Care in the Adult Patients with Cardiorespiratory Arrest at the General San Francisco Hospital (in Spanish)

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 17.2 0 million deaths worldwide are registered each year from cardiovascular causes1-3. Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of Cardiorespiratory Arrest (CRP) in adults4. Those at highest risk are patients between 50 and 70 years of age, 70% vs 30% male, 80% of these are due to ventricular fibrillation (VF) or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (PVT)5-7. In Ecuador, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) in 2019, 8,779 deaths were registered due to ischemia of the heart, becoming the main cause of general mortality with a percentage of 11.808. This route describes the role of the nurse as part of the response team to a CRA, based on the American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines. The procedure to be followed is expressed in the context of the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) Taxonomy, Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC), the name and acronym in English of the standardized and coded classification of nursing interventions and Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) the classification of results.