Nursing care of patients after orthopedic operation

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A few days ago, when I was playing football, I broke my bones and muscles for 100 days. After hospitalization, I had an operation. Now I'm in the process of recovery. How do I care for patients after orthopedic surgery? Let me keep talking.

Nursing care of patients after orthopedic operation

First, after fracture, patients with plaster casting had better observe in the hospital for a few days before leaving hospital for self-care. In order to prevent the deformation of gypsum board and the extrusion of limbs caused by improper nursing when the gypsum is not dry and fixed. Nurses should often observe whether the fingers and toes of the fracture site have symptoms such as congestion and numbness, so as to prevent the symptoms of limb necrosis. If the patient has a fever, it may be wound infection, be sure to send to the hospital for treatment in time

Second, in the early stage of fracture recovery, bed rest is the main method. We must turn over the patient frequently to prevent the occurrence of bedsore. Plaster is easy to sweat, and then itch, but we must supervise the patient, can not stretch in to scratch, prevent skin ulceration caused by infection. In the late stage of bone healing, patients can be allowed to get out of bed to accelerate bone healing

Third, in terms of diet, patients with fracture should mainly eat digestible and nutritious food, but they don't need to drink more bone soup. Patients with fracture should eat more meat and bone, which will not heal early, but will delay the healing time of fracture. Should give the patient to drink more water, cannot partial food, nutrition must be comprehensive, the disease can be cured quickly. Only in the diet for reasonable conditioning and collocation, the patient's fracture will improve as soon as possible.

matters needing attention

After the fracture, we should go to the hospital regularly according to the doctor's instructions to change the plaster and dressing, spicy stimulation, raw and cold food taboo, and to quit smoking and drinking, pay attention to rest, reasonable arrangement and life in the hospital.