This webpage contains a collection of bedside resources for the practitioner who is providing bedside nursing care for children and adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). These patients may be hospitalized in either an adult or pediatric facility. These Care Resources include summaries of congenital heart defects with surgical interventions/repairs and potential/actual complications that may be encountered in infancy, childhood and during adulthood with CHD. These resources have been developed by a group of advance practice nurses from around the country with the goal of providing a quick, comprehensive overview of the bedside care for the nurse at the point of care. Each topic in this outline may be opened, printed, and taken to the bedside for quick reference or serve as a guideline for caring with children and adults with CHD. Every effort has been made to provide the most current, up-to-date practice recommendations however institutional differences may occur.
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Congenital Heart Defects:
- Aortic Valve
- Atrial Septal Defect
- Atrioventricular Septal Defects
- Clinical Guidelines for CHD – Contributors
- Coarctation of the Aorta
- Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries
- Ebstein’s Anomaly
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Mitral Valve
- Pulmonary Atresia – Intact Ventricular Septum
- Pulmonary Valve Guideline
- Tetralogy of Fallot
- Tetralogy of Fallot – Absent Pulmonary Valve
- Tetralogy of Fallot – Pulmonary Atresia
- Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
- Transposition of the Great Arteries
- Tricuspid Atresia
- Tricuspid Valve Guideline
- Truncus Arteriosus
- Ventricular Septal Defect
