Title: Study on Nursing Intervention among Bedridden elderly patients from Pressure Sores ABSTRACT
Objective To determine the occurrence and the development of pressure sore among bedridden elderly patients and to know the content and pattern of nursing intervention. Methods The study was conducted in Tongling, Anhui Province Maternal and Child Health Hospital. The people who suffer bedridden elderly patients and stayed in the hospital during 2007.1-2008.7 were invited to be as subjects. Use self-designed pressure sore risk assessment form hospital. Assessed the situation in patients who systemic score ≥ 8 points were identified as having risk. The subsequent 38 patients with pressure sore risk. Divided into experimental and control groups. Then intervene in care and routine care to compare the two groups of patients with pressure sores progress. Results There are 4 bedridden elderly patients have pressure sores during the hospital, the rate of 10.52%, the intervention group was admitted to the first 7 days in patients with pressure sores have not found the control group in the hospital 7 days 1, in the hospital 15-day assessment, pressure sores occur in the intervention group as a person I degrees, the control group, three were suffering from pressure sores, in which two people I degrees, a man-made Ⅱ degree. In the discharge assessment, did not pressure sores. The intervention group in the incidence of pressure sores and pressure sores of the disease progression were lower than the control group, two groups was statistically significant. Conclusions Integrated early intervention measures could promote the incidence of pressure sores and development .