Proceso de atención de enfermería en recién nacido pretérmino con membrana hialina basado en la Teoría de Virginia Henderson.

Abstract

The hyaline membrane disease, currently known as respiratory distress syndrome, is a respiratory pathology that affects premature infants due to immaturity of the lung due to the lack of surfactant that helps the maturation of the newborn's lungs, allowing the lung is developed and air enters the lungs. The World Health Organization considers a premature baby when they are still less than 37 weeks pregnant, states that each year more than 15 million premature children are born, worldwide prematurity is the main cause of neonatal deaths and that those who achieve survive suffer from some type of disability for life, which may be related to visual or hearing problems, psychomotor or learning retardation. In Ecuador, the hyaline membrane is the most frequent disease in premature children. It is estimated that newborns weighing less than 1,500 grams are most prone when they are born by caesarean section, since physiological delivery stimulates the endogenous secretion of corticosteroids, responsible for lung maturation. This syndrome brings with it different complications such as intraventricular hemorrhage, pneumothorax, neonatal sepsis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia and in more catastrophic cases the death of the newborn. Objective: The objective of this study is to describe the nursing care applied to preterm newborns with hyaline membrane disease oriented on Virginia Henderson's theory by reviewing the literature and collecting data from the clinical history for the adequate recovery of the newborn.