Key result
Younger people with implantable cardioverter defibrillators experience numerous limitations affecting their quality of life, highlighting the need for nursing support.
Why the study?
How do younger people with ICDs describe their quality of life?
How do younger people with ICDs describe their quality of life?
Younger patients with ICDs face unique quality of life challenges that require specific nursing management strategies.
Younger ICD patients report device-related QoL limitations; leaves open optimal nursing support strategies pending prospective trials.
Although a life-saving device for people with potentially lethal ventricular arrhythmias, the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) also imposes numerous limitations. This is especially true for active younger people who will have many more years of trying to cope with the limitations the device imposes. The authors report how younger people with ICDs describe the quality of their life, and suggest ways nurses can help these individuals manage with an ICD.
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Vitale et al. (1995) studied Ventricular arrhythmias. Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) was evaluated on Quality of life. Younger people with implantable cardioverter defibrillators experience numerous limitations affecting their quality of life, highlighting the need for nursing support.
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