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Ligonių po nugaros smegenų pažeidimų slauga ankstyvos stacionarinės reabilitacijos laikotarpiu / To assess the need of nursing care for patients with spinal cord injury during the early in-patient rehabilitation period

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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]

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050614_122816-13410
Date14 June 2005
CreatorsValentienė, Rūta
ContributorsSamėnienė, Jūratė, Šeškevičius, Arvydas, Macijauskienė, Jūratė, Kaunas University of Medicine
PublisherLithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine
Source SetsLithuanian ETD submission system
LanguageLithuanian
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMaster thesis
Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20050614_122816-13410
RightsUnrestricted

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