Observation and nursing of brain injury.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Observation and nursing of brain injury [Keywords:] brain injury, observation, nursing Traumatic brain injury is a common injury, accounting for 15% of body damage 20%, second only to limb injury, often associated with damage to other parts of the body complex exists, its morbidity and mortality rate of the first place. Brain disease complicated injury patients, with a high incidence of severe illness, complex, more complications, high mortality characteristics. Therefore, close observation and care to reduce complications and sequelae, improve treatment and reduce mortality is important, and requires solid professional nurse must have the technique to observe the condition to be serious and timely detection of problems and timely reporting to the doctor to save lives of patients, to obtain the best recovery. now we have treated 20 cases of recent brain injury in nursing Summary as follows. 1 Clinical data 20 cases, male 15, female 5 cases, 12 cases of simple traumatic brain injury, cerebral contusion and intracerebral hematoma in 8 cases, surgery in 9 cases, non-surgical, 11 cases were cured in 14 cases, 4 cases improved and 2 died. 2 disease observed The disease is characterized by brain damage variable, volatile, mutation, is difficult to predict, even if the surgery has been wounded several days after the surgery can suddenly change, so effective and timely dynamic observation of the condition is significant. General brain Injury Illness observation for 72 hours, after observing the condition of patients and the doctor’s advice to continue. 2.1 Observation of the dynamic condition Hematoma caused by traumatic brain injury, cerebral contusion, or swelling of brain tissue caused by the cranial cavity volume and the cranial contents of the imbalance between the volume, more than the limits of physiologic function of increased intracranial pressure occurs when the intracranial pressuregt; 1.76kPa when patients can