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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Elderly patients with peripheral venous injury observation care Of: Zhou Yan, Bao-Xiang, Xu Jinyan, Tian Hongjun [Keywords:] intravenous infusion, phlebitis, injury Peripheral venous infusion is a clinical treatment and emergency medicine and an important way to supply nutrition. Elderly patients with vascular conditions and differences in mental capacity, particularly in the application of hypertonic solution, it could easily lead to vascular spasm, phlebitis, leakage, etc. occur, re- who had local skin discoloration and other similar situations, thereby increasing the patients psychological burden of patient care and rehabilitation. In order to reduce elderly patients with peripheral venous infusion of injury, relieve pain, we have 79 cases of elderly patients with peripheral venous infusion were observed nursing, for observed the problems and take care of different measures to reduce the incidence of various complications of transfusion and improve the success rate and cure rate. 1 Clinical data Since March 2006 -2009 on Feb. 79 cases of intravenous medical treatment of elderly patients to take preventive care measures. Including 44 males and 35 female, aged 50 to 80 years, all with two or more diseases, in which 47 patients with diabetes, accounting for 60%, hypertension, cerebral infarction in 32 patients, 40%, the sick were more than 3 years, the infusion time in more than two weeks. 2 Observation and nursing care 2.1 pairs of elderly nursing assessment of patients with transfusion in elderly patients often suffer from multiple chronic diseases, associated with nerve and blood vessel disease, blood vessel elasticity is poor, poor peripheral circulation, impaired skin integrity. Bedridden old man with muscular atrophy beneath, deep vein thrombosis associated with lower limb pain, paresthesia, serious insufficiency, diabetic patients with skin necrosis. cognition in patients with different, often feel loneliness,