Fracture symptom nursing?

Update Date: 2024-03-03 Source: Network

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Although we all hope to be healthy, there are always unexpected accidents in our life. Especially for the elderly, due to physical weakness, osteoporosis and other reasons, fracture often occurs. At this time, nursing becomes a problem. In fact, the elderly care is not as difficult as imagined. As long as we master the correct method, we can make the elderly recover as soon as possible. Now let's introduce the nursing focus of the elderly with fracture and how to care.

Fracture symptom nursing?

After the fracture, the elderly will go to the hospital for examination. At this time, they will have to face many strangers and many examination instruments, which will make the elderly show symptoms of irritability, anxiety, fear, excitement, multilingualism, insomnia and so on. In order to relieve the ideological burden of the elderly, children should give comfort to the elderly.

For fear of adding trouble to their children, some old people with fracture control their diet and reduce the frequency of urination. At this time, we should explain the importance of nutrition to them, encourage them to drink more water, eat more easily digestible food, keep their urine and stool unobstructed, and avoid constipation.

Patients with fracture, due to long-term bedridden, poor blood circulation, low skin resistance, long-term compression of local tissue, especially sacrococcygeal, occipital, ankle, heel bone process prone to bedsore, should give air cushion bed, sponge pad or sacrococcygeal plus anti bedsore pad, bone process can pad sponge ring.

matters needing attention

If the injured elderly have neck or low back pain, and their lower limbs or even arms have no feeling, it is necessary to think about whether it is a spinal fracture. At this time, we should pay attention not to casually support and lift the injured person, we must keep the spine in a straight state, absolutely not to sit up, so as not to oppress the spinal cord and cause lower limb paralysis. It is best to be sent to the hospital in a supine position.