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- 2Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- 1Cardio-thoracic nursing
- 1Caring practices
- 1Child nursing
- 1Child-development
- 2Harrison, Margaret J.
- 2Rempel, Gwen R.
- 1Chontawan, R.
- 1Laohaprasittiporn, D.
- 1Ray, L.
- 1Srichantaranit, A.
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Is "treat your child normally" helpful advice for parents of survivors of treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome?
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Williamson, Deanna L., Rempel, Gwen R., Harrison, Margaret J.
BACKGROUND: Developing technology affords children with complex congenitally malformed hearts a chance for survival. Parents gratefully pursue life-saving options on behalf of their children, despite the risks to the life of their child, and uncertainty about outcomes. Little is known about how...
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Safeguarding precarious survival: Parenting children who have life-threatening heart disease
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Rempel, Gwen R., Harrison, Margaret J.
The purpose of this study is to describe the process of parenting a child with life-threatening heart disease. Despite advances in pediatric cardiac sciences, hypoplastic left heart syndrome remains difficult and controversial to treat. The Norwood surgical approach is a developing technology,...
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Thai families' caring practices for infants with congenital heart disease prior to cardiac surgery
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Yenbut, J., Chontawan, R., Laohaprasittiporn, D., Wanitkun, S., Ray, L., Srichantaranit, A.
This focused ethnographic study aimed at exploring how the Thai sociocultural context influenced the perceptions and practices of Thai families caring for infants, 3 months to 17 months, with symptomatic, acyanotic or cyanotic, congenital heart disease (CHD), prior to cardiac surgery. Purposive...