SUMMARY
Objective of the study. To assess the need of nursing care for patients with spinal cord injury during the early in-patient rehabilitation period.
Methods. During the study, thirty-two patients following an acute spinal cord injury, hospitalized in the Neurorehabilitation Unit of the Rehabilitation Division at the Kaunas University of Medicine Hospital, were inquired, examined and cared for. The contingent of studied patients consisted of paraplegic individuals with retained upper limb functions who could fill in themselves a questionnaire, which included 22 questions.
Results. The obtained data have shown that 10 women participating in the study were older than 22 men (p £ 0.05): the average age of the women (in the range of 28 to 70 years) was 41 years whereas of the men (in the range of 19 to 52 years), 33.86 years. A reliable correlation according to the Kendall coefficient was determined between the patients self–assessment and the real mobility of the studied individuals. The data of the study have shown that 17 (54.5 percent) of the patients with disturbed urinary function were febrile. The fever was assessed in all 7 patients with continuously indwelled Foley catheters (p £ 0.05), whereas in 15 cases of intermittent catheterization just 5 (33.3 percent) of the patients were febrile (p £ 0.05).
The employment of the Fisher criterion has shown that in cases of continuously indwelled Foley catheters for the urinary bladder drainage and the presence of fever... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050614_122816-13410 |
| Date | 14 June 2005 |
| Creators | Valentienė, Rūta |
| Contributors | Samėnienė, Jūratė, Šeškevičius, Arvydas, Macijauskienė, Jūratė, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Master thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050614_122816-13410 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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