Home | First lady | Activities of Silvia Gašparovičová | Year 2011 | Slovak Foundation of Silvia Gašparovičová – Education and Health for Everybody supported the project Home Monitoring of Children with Congenital Heart Defects
On 14 December 2011 was in the Children Cardio Centre of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Bratislava (DKC) presented a project called "Home Monitoring of Children with Congenital Heart Defects". The project includes cost-free hiring of 20 pulse oximeters to pediatric patients of the Cardiocentre for their monitoring at home. Three of them were paid for this purpose by the Slovak Foundation of Silvia Gašparovičová – Education and Health for Everybody. As stated by the First Lady of Slovakia, "it’s always a good feeling when we can help. We are pleased that our foundation is also involved in this project. Parents will be able also by a pulse oximeter to watch their child at home and will make sure that their child isn´t at the border in the moment."
Loan of a pulse oximeter will happen automatically at the release of the patient from hospital after surgery. At home monitoring is important to regularly measure the daily saturation and heart rate of the child to detect even minimal changes of these two parameters. In some countries the monitoring of patients with single-chamber circulation a standard. As stated by the Head of the DKC Cardiosurgery Department Mr. Matej Nosáľ, "pulse oximeters are intended primarily for patients with critical congenital heart defects, therefore it are patients who have severe defects that often have to be operated in the neonatal age."
From one thousand children born in Slovakia have six or up to nine cardiac birth defects. Several studies have shown that the early detection of factors reduction, measured by the device, decrease the mortality from 15 to half a percentage point. |
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