Patient feelings during the preoperative period for cardiac surgery Sentimientos de los pacientes en el preoperatorio de cirugía cardíaca Sentimentos de pacientes no pré-operatório de cirurgia cardíaca

• Main Authors: Tatiana Victorelli Pires Vargas (Author), Emanuelle Mendonça Maia (Author), Rosana Aparecida Spadoti Dantas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo, 2006-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This qualitative study aimed to identify the feelings patients presented when confronted with the news about the need to undergo cardiac surgery and, later, during the preoperative period. Twenty male patients were interviewed. The case study methodology was adopted and the analysis process resulted...