Nursing care protocol for patients with a ventricular assist device

• Main Authors: Regimar Carla Machado (Author), Purificación Gironés (Author), Andressa Rodrigues de Souza (Author), Rita Simone Lopes Moreira (Author), Camila Bomfim von Jakitsch (Author), João Nelson Rodrigues Branco (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT Objective: to develop and validate a nursing care protocol for patients with a ventricular assist device (VAD). Method: descriptive study, with a quantitative approach, for an instrument's methodological validation. Three stages were conducted: development of the instrument; protocol c...