Nursing care: Postoperative thoracotomy patient with drainage from the Virginia Henderson model

Chumpitaz M.; Reyes Reyes E.; Cusi Alvarez S.; Ponti L.E. · Health Leadership and Quality of Life (2024) · DOI: 10.56294/hl2024.513

Resumen

The clinical case of an 81-year-old man is presented who, after wide left lung thoracotomy and drainage surgery, presented hemodynamic decompensation in the post-anesthesia recovery room. Objective: is to apply an individualized care plan that allows hemodynamic balance for the post-operative patient. Conclusions: a Care Plan with NANDA, NOC and NIC was made for the patient, applying the assessment of the Virginia Henderson model and the AREA model, prioritizing the diagnoses: Decrease in cardiac output and deterioration of gas exchange, whose final evaluation was 1,2,3.