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Medical management of infants and children with congenital heart disease after surgical discharge involves complex challenges including medication use, growth monitoring, and long-term care.
Provides an overview of the medical management challenges and strategies for infants and children with congenital heart disease following surgical discharge.
Underscores complex post-discharge needs in pediatric CHD; leaves open standardized protocols for prospective evaluation.
Congenital heart disease (CHD) presents medical management challenges throughout the lifespan. As the complexity of the lesion increases, so do the management challenges. These issues include medication use; short-term postoperative management monitoring of growth, nutrition, development, family impact, immunization; and long-term management issues. The knowledge base in this field is ever growing, and only with knowing what to expect can we identify the unexpected and make that part of our understanding of the care of children with CHD.
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Dooley et al. (2002) conducted a review in Congenital heart disease (CHD). Medical management of infants and children with congenital heart disease after surgical discharge involves complex challenges including medication use, growth monitoring, and long-term care.
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