Elderly nursing care of patients with pneumoconiosis.doc

Elderly nursing care of patients with pneumoconiosis Of: Lin Jinfen, Huang Xiaolin, Wu Yunping, Yang Yanxia [Keywords:] pneumoconiosis; elderly; Care The incidence of pneumoconiosis is the largest one of the most affected occupational disease, occupational disease, according to 2002 statistics show that China’s total more than 550,000 cases of pneumoconiosis, and the new pneumoconiosis patients 1 to 2 million per year rate of increase [1]. Pneumoconiosis patients Clinical manifestations of chest tightness, chest pain, cough, sputum, dyspnea, respiratory function decline. particularly older patients with pneumoconiosis, more complications, often severe illness, longer duration, illness easily repeated, so care is particularly important to do. I Bureau since June 2004 ~ October 2008 a total of 513 patients admitted to elderly patients with pneumoconiosis, nursing now reported as follows. 1 Clinical data 1.1 General information on 513 patients in this group, 474 cases males, 39 females; aged 60 years and 341 cases, 70 to 133 cases, 39 cases of 80 to 90 years old, average 73.5 years old; a 121 cases of pneumoconiosis, pneumoconiosis II 176 cases, three of 216 cases of pneumoconiosis; no complications in 92 patients, 421 cases had complications. All patients were diagnosed through Guangxi group collective consultation occupational pneumoconiosis diagnosed (diagnostic criteria of pneumoconiosis according to [2]). Clinical features 1.2 more men than women, the proportion of this group was 12.15:1; underlying disease pneumoconiosis many older, more complications, atypical symptoms, most patients in this group of cases associated with different degrees of pulmonary heart disease, emphysema , tuberculosis, lung infection. old immunocompromised pneumoconiosis, respiratory defense dysfunction, pulmonary infection difficult to control. many old people and children of separated or widowed and feel lonely, or because of illness worry and self-pity abandon mys