Insuficiência cardíaca: fatores que interferem na qualidade de vida

Abstract

The present work is contextualized in the author's experience in Specialization Course in Primary Care in Family Health and, focused on heart failure (HF), seeks to draw a new goal for health care in which the professional activity can be permeated by the acquisition of new paradigms about the concept of knowing and health care and by redefining the professional role in this process. In a literature review themes as concept, causes and correlations between heart failure and life style and quality of heart failure clinic are considered, as well health education and the organization of health care, with emphasis on the role of nursing. It is investigated as patient's quality of life is affected, bearing in mind that the HF presents itself as a major public health problem, raising the rates of hospitalization and deaths/year. The strategy of education in health, prerogative of primary care, is proposed as the way to work on prevention. We seek to analyze how the expectations of the patient could influence on treatment. It is concluded that hearth failure can occur involving various personnel aspects, in its integrity, and that should be the concern of the professional nurse.