Mental disorders in elderly patients and nursing causes.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9 Mental disorders in elderly patients and nursing causes Of: Lihong Yong, Wang Yonghua, Qu Linlin [Keywords:] in elderly patients; postoperative mental disorders; Care Mental disorders in elderly patients (postoperative Mental State Changes, PMSC) is within a few days after the elderly in a series of reversible and volatility of acute mental disorder syndrome, including consciousness, cognition, memory, orientation, mental aspects of motor behavior and sleep disorders [1]. With the development of medicine, aging society, elderly patients have an increasing operation. PMSC rehabilitation can lead to delays, complications and mortality, and prolonged hospital stay and medical increased costs. older patients the incidence of mental disorders and the mechanism is very complex factors, is the physical, psychological and environmental changes in the central nervous system disorders caused by many factors synergy, which occurs after mental disorders. now for our department July 2007-November 2008 20 patients over the age of 60 postoperative patients with mental disorders in the nursing summary, are as follows. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General Information The group of 20 elderly patients, male 16 cases, 4 females, aged 62 to 83 years, mean age 72 years .3 widowed patients, 8 patients from the hospital to take care of their children, 7 patients during hospitalization care of by the nanny, 2 patients from the hospital to take care of his wife. which: 4 cases of rectal cancer, gastric cancer surgery in 5 cases, 3 cases of intestinal perforation repair, colon resection in 8 cases, anesthesia is general anesthesia. patients admitted to hospital no prior history of mental illness and dementia. 1.2 clinical performance of this group of elderly patients with mental disorders, of which 3 to 5 days after onset of symptoms in 12 cases, 10 days after onset of symptoms in 8 patients. Time for a minimum of 4 hours, up to 2 3 days. Among them, 13 pa