Falls during hospitalization in elderly patients Analysis and Countermeasures.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Falls during hospitalization in elderly patients Analysis and Countermeasures [Keywords:] Analysis and falls in elderly patients During hospitalization, or physical as a special condition may occur and to prevent unexpected accidents. Especially the elderly and the existence of unsteady gait, poor balance function, cause debilitating fall prone. It reminds us of the safety of elderly patients during hospitalization issue to be taken seriously enough, the nurses should be given more time to care for the safety of elderly patients to find effective preventive measures to improve the quality of care. Analysis 1 1.1 The factors that induce their own elderly falls Depends on the stability of the human body posture sense organs, central nervous system and skeletal muscle function of coherence. Disrupt the function of the system any part of any factors, functional damage to the body’s internal stability, and a fall induced by internal factors. 1.1.1 Some causes of syncope in elderly diseases. Of cerebral blood flow and oxygen supply, cardiovascular diseases, such as arrhythmia syncope, congestive heart failure, cardiac fibrillation, high blood pressure, diabetes, hypoglycemia, symptoms hypotension can cause dizziness, tired and fall. Qu Lei [1] in investigating the reasons for falls in hospitalized elderly patients were found: 18.1% caused by the dizziness, 10.8% of orthostatic hypotension, falls in elderly patients 60.53% is caused by the disease itself. 1.1.2 auditory, visual, balance dysfunction. Many studies have found that: visual (vision, vision, hearing, touch, vestibular, and proprioceptive functions of the damage and loss, both to reduce the incoming information in the central nervous system, affecting the brain accurate analysis, determine. patients with cerebral thrombosis, Parkinson’s disease, inner ear vertigo, cerebellar dysfunction, poor balance function in elderly patients easily fall. especially