Nursing interventions. The nurse's role in the care of a 730 g baby treated with prostaglandins for 62 days for a coarctation of the aorta.

As techniques for saving very low birth weight babies improve, there will be a need to maintain babies with cardiac lesions on continuous infusions of prostaglandins until they gain enough weight so that corrective surgery can be performed. An organized approach to overcome the problems of prematurity through primary nursing is essential when caring for the very low birth weight baby with congenital heart disease requiring long-term prostaglandin therapy.