Hospital discharge guidelines for self-care performance after cardiac surgery: Integrative review

Abstract

Objective: to identify the necessary health guidelines, so that the patient in the postoperative period of cardiac surgery can perform self-care behaviors after hospital discharge. Method: integrative review, following the steps proposed by Whittemore, limited to the Portuguese, English and Spanish languages, and publication between 2007 and 2018. The databases used were available on the virtual libraries PubMed and Virtual Health Library and the Ursi instrument for data extraction. The articles were classified according to the level of evidence. Results: six articles were included. The findings allowed creating nine categories that group the health guidelines for self-care performance after hospital discharge from cardiac surgery. Conclusion: activities of daily living, diet, physical activity and exercise, psychological symptoms, control of risk factors, complications, drug therapy, management of symptoms and skin were health guidelines identified for the performance of self-care after hospital discharge of patients undergoing cardiac surgery.