Nursing elderly critically ill patients.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Nursing elderly critically ill patients Of: Xiao-ying, Zhang, Wang Xuemei, He Sha [Keywords:] Elderly Critical Care With the advent of an aging society, increasing aging population makes the geriatric ward in critically ill patients increased year by year to improve the quality of care and bring some pressure, so care disciplines continue to face new and difficult problems. Elderly critically ill patients with long hospital stay, nursing the problem more difficult to care, condition changing, disease prognosis is poor, can endanger the lives of patients at any time, we concluded in the care process of care measures in elderly critically ill patients, thereby reducing the age of death in critically ill patients, shortening the course of the disease, are as follows. 1 Clinical data Our department since July 30, 2006 ~ June 30, 2008, a total of 59 cases of critically ill patients admitted to old age, male 57 cases, 2 females, aged from 80 to 103 years old, ages 80 to 89 years in 22 cases, 90 94 years old in 20 cases, 95 to 103 years in 17 cases, the average age of 92.04 years. through clinical care, the condition observation care measures, 52 patients recovered well, five cases of pulmonary infection, 1 died of gastrointestinal bleeding, 1 patient died in advanced cancer. 2 nursing 2.1 Clinical Care 2.1.1 Psychological Care recurrent disease in most patients, and some lost confidence in the disease, and some lack of family care, nurses must understand the suffering of patients, caring, patient, strengthen psychological care, enhance communication, a language in critically ill patients can communication, first by nursing staff patient and meticulous guidance of a purpose, in which patients received from the psychological, and active support. while the tracheotomy, the patients can not be verbal communication, you can with some tools, such as writing boards, a description of the pattern plate or use gestures to commun