Calidad de vida en personas con dispositivos cardiacos implantables

Abstract

Objective: To know the quality of life of adults with implantable cardiac devices. Materials and methods: Narrative review, where 15 articles selected from 5 databases that provided important information were investigated and included. Results: The most affected age range was from 40 to 80 years with 57.1%, where the male sex predominated with 52.6%. Regarding the dimensions of quality of life, it was evidenced that the physical dimension is the most affected with 40%, in turn the psychological dimension was affected by the fact that people are in a low mood, depression, fear and anxiety. Conclusion: Through the researched literature, it was possible to know the quality of life for those patients with an implantable heart device, knowing the limitations and emotions that these devices generate, it was also evidenced that over time the lives of these people improve , without leaving behind that as well as improvement, they also require a multidisciplinary effort to further facilitate tolerance and adaptation of these devices, therefore, it is necessary to rely on literature that provides us with these data.