Nursing brain injury.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Nursing brain injury [Keywords:] brain injury care Our hospital from January 2007 to January 2009, a total of 71 patients admitted to a variety of brain injury, 49 cases of males and 22 females, maximum age 70 years old and the youngest 2 years old, average age 30 years old, cause of the injuries were 10 cases of falling from height, traffic accident in 50 cases, 11 cases of combat injuries, of which 5 died, the mortality rate was seven percent. With the accident, the occurrence of accidents caused by a large number of brain trauma patients. In particular, very serious injury, complex pathological changes, the symptoms varied, rapidly changing conditions. Therefore, nurses must look carefully, a comprehensive review, the rapid and timely manner control condition changes, lose no time in reporting doctor, be dealt with rescue. A nursing observation points 1.1 Observation of the patient’s conscious awareness of the changes is to determine extent of brain injury and intracranial hypertension important indication of whether or not the ~. Coma is the most common symptoms of disturbance of consciousness, coma gradually deepened, suggesting increased intracranial lesions, coma, stable and gradually restored, suggesting that condition gradually improved, 30-year-old male hospital patient case, due to skull fracture, intracranial hematoma admitted to the patient restlessness, and then gradually into a coma, two cases ranging from large pupil, and when large Small, light reflex sluggish, timely reporting physician, the examination to consider intracranial hematoma, intracranial hematoma immediately, two months after surgery were cured and one case of 22-year-old male patient with postoperative epidural hematoma patient stability coma for ten days to give continuous low flow oxygen and other bleeding, dehydration and gradually recovered after symptomatic treatment, a clear mind discharged after one and half months. 1.