Features and clinical nursing of heart failure in elderly patients during perioperative period
Features and clinical nursing of heart failure in elderly patients during perioperative period作者机构:Deparment of surgery Sanzao Hospital China Deparment of Burns surgery Guangdong Academy Medical Sciences Guangdong General Hospital
出 版 物:《South China Journal of Cardiology》 (岭南心血管病杂志(英文版))
年 卷 期:2010年第11卷第2期
页 面:104-108页
学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100201[医学-内科学(含:心血管病、血液病、呼吸系病、消化系病、内分泌与代谢病、肾病、风湿病、传染病)] 10[医学]
主 题:heart failure elderly patients nursing
摘 要:Heart failure is a common condition in elderly *** further population aging,incidence of heart failure is constantly *** heart failure occurs in this group of patients,clinical symptoms may vary vastly,rendering difficulty for the treatment process and leading to poor efficacy and *** gain better under-standing on clinical symptoms and signs of heart failure in elderly patients,to provide prevention and treatment against heart failure for elderly patients in terms of nursing care and to improve success rate of salvage treatment as well as nurs-ing *** Retrospective analysis was performed in 141 patients with heart failure who were treated in our hospital during January 2005 and December *** aged 60 years were assigned to elderly group while those aged 60 years were assigned to non elderly *** two groups were compared in terms of clinical symptoms, signs and physical and laboratory *** Clinical symptoms and signs of heart failure tended to be a-typical in elderly *** including cough,sputum,increased heart rate and mental disorder were frequent, and a substantial proportion of patients had pulmonary congestion and *** Prevention and specific nursing measures should be aggressively taken based on the features of heart failure in elderly *** of in-spection particularly observation on atypical symptoms should be increased to provide intensive monitoring.