How to care for paralyzed patients? How to facilitate the state of the patient? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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How to care for paralyzed patients
When careing for paralyzed patients, you need to know some of the features of its condition.
- Education is easier to warn you to cure. From the first day after injury or disruption of the blood circulation of the spinal cord, the patient must be placed on the Anti-Rubber Pneumatic Mattress. Also, make a crossbar above the bed (at the height of the pulled hand of the patient). This is a simple device will help you, and a patient to recover a bed, «disembark». For the prevention of the patient's bedtime, it is necessary to shift it every 2 hours with a side on the side, putting under the sacrive area, heels and knees «Marley bagels». Do not allow folding folds on bed linen.
- Do not forget every day to help the patient to wash and clean your teeth. Wipe the body of the patient with a wet towel and camphor alcohol.
- In case of violations of the functions of pelvic organs, diapers can be used in compliance with all measures for the prevention of skin maceration (children's powers, zinc-containing pastes, wiping a weak solution of potassium mangartage). When urine delays apply Foley catheters (usually for adults use No. 14-16). This 2- or 3-shift catheter is convenient because it is possible to wash the bladder through it, and the inflating cuff does not require the outer fixation of the catheter. But still, like any catheter, it cannot be in the urinary bubble cavity for more than 1 month and requires replacement. In some situations (when urine incontinence) it is better to use diapers.
- Feed the patient better dietary, easily friendly food. For this suitable yoghurts, baby food, cereal, low-fat soups.
All these events will allow the victim to avoid medical problems and everyday inconveniences. However, the most important problem for this category of patients is psychological trauma.
After severe injury, emotional support for relatives and medical personnel is needed, but often the Company is not ready to solve this problem.
Psychologists studies have shown that all paralyzed patients have a need for independence, activity, seek to independently dispose of their fate and be included in different areas of life on a par with other people. «Weak place» Patients with diseases of the spine is aggravated sensitivity and vulnerability, experience «inferiority and dependence in the presence of a strong need for independence. This internal conflict finds its expression in the depressiveness and the directivity of aggression on itself, as such patients are prone to reflection and self-criticality.
Disabled men are a more complex object for psychological correction than women. Lost ability, they do not find the replacement of professional activities, are seriously experiencing their «Uselessness» and consider themselves a burden for loved ones. In addition, they focus on their painful sensations.
Of all the above, the following recommendations suggest:
- From the first days after the injury to surround the patient with care and attention;
- try to hold the most complex of medical events (operations and t. D.);
- Do not treat the victim as «Fucked», and see in it a full-fledged member of society;
- Create positive motivation and installation for the future. If necessary, you can attract a psychologist;
- try to adapt the patient to life in conditions of limited opportunities: the acquisition of a carriage, the manufacture of orthoses, devices that help the patient care for themselves - to be combed, take a spoon and t. D.);
- Equip out a place to work on a computer, simulators and t. D.
