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Objective To investigate the nursing knowledge of rural patients with rectal carcinoma after permanent colostomy.Methods Data were collected on 54 patients with rectal carcinoma after permanent colostomy using the self-designed questionnaire and analyzed by statistical methods.Results The rural patients with permanent colostomy showed low level of nursing knowledge.Scores of patients with different sexes and family income showed significant difference.Conclusions Medical security system and medical staff should provide with more welfare policy and specialty support for the patients in rural areas to promote their knowledge of self-care.
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Objective To clarify great benefit to prevention of wound infection as well as reduction of economic expenditures by a new method of connecting latex gloves and cigarettes in peritoneal drainage. Methods We randomly selected 121 cases of patients with peritoneal pyogenic infection, divided them into the latex gloves group (64 eases)and the common dressing group (57 cases). The incision infection rate and eco-nomic cost in two groups were comparately studied. Results The latex gloves group's incision infection rate was 10.94% (7 / 64), the common dressing was 31.58% (18/57). Each patient of the latex gloves group spent less cost about 15.70 yuan,changed dressing 5.3 times less than the common dressing group. Conclusions Connecting latex gloves and cigarettes in peritoneal drainage is a new method of reducing economic expandi-tures and the chances of incision infection. Clinical application of this method should be fully prospected.