Nursing Care for Patients with Acute Thoracic Aortic Syndrome and Nursing

Abstract

Patients with acute thoracic aortic thoracic syndrome is defined as emergency conditions and leading causes of death in cardiovascular disease. The symptoms include acute onset of severe chest or back pain is the most common, syncope, neurological deficit including stroke and paraplegia, acute congestive heart failure, myocardial ischemia, lower extremity ischemia. There are patients after being diagnosed must receive emergent treatment to reduce complication and decrease mortality rate. Most will be treated with surgery is the aortic replacement or thoracic endovascular stent graft. But there are a number of patients who died while waiting for surgery because need to be transfer to expertise in cardiac surgery center. There for Nursing preoperative is very important since assessing symptoms and physical examination from the beginning nursing management after being diagnosed to prevent the severity of the disease including monitoring and manage complications from disease progression to reduce disability and mortality.