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Objective To compare the effect of nursing students acting as social volunteers to participate in gerontological nursing practice teaching with traditional practice teaching mode, and promote the reform of teaching mode in nursing practice. Methods Students of two classes from department of nursing, medical college of Wuhan University of Science and Technology were selected as research objects. In class one nursing students acted as social volunteers to participate in gerontological nursing practice teaching (the experimental group), In class two nursing students took practice in geriatric wards according to traditional practice mode(the control group). The practice effect was compared between two groups. Results The average final grade of the experimental group was 86.50, and 78.51 in the control group. Ridit analysis revealed that, setting class one as the experimental group, R=0.796 8,95% confidence interval was 0.715 1-0.878 4, in the control group, R =0.500 0. The investigation showed that the experimental group and the control group were different in moral elevation aspect, teaching level, capability improving aspect and employment promotion aspect, the difference was significant (P<0.01). Conclusions The mode of nursing students acting as social volunteers to participate in gerontological nursing practice teaching has advantage over traditional practice teaching, and it can gain satisfying teaching effect.
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Objective To explore the causes of complications from radiofrequency catheter ablation in the treatment of atrial fibrillation and summarize the nursing strategy. Methods Two hundred and thirty-four patients with atrial fibrillation were treated with radiofrequency catheter ablation. The clinical data of 17 of them contracting complications were retrospectively reviewed to summarize the nursing strategies. Results Among the 17 patients with complications, 2 patients contracted pericardial effusion, 4 acute cardiac tamponade, 3 acute left heart failure, 3 bleeding, 1 pneumothorax and 4 pulmonary vein stenosis. All of them got recovered and discharged after rescue and intensive care. Conclusions The complications of atrial fibrillation after radiofrequency ablation are serious and sudden. The nursing strategies including mastery of the complications′symptoms and correct nursing measures are critical for a better prognosis.
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Objective To investigate the effects of comprehensive pain management on pains and recovery of knee function of patients who hadundergone total knee arthroplasty(TKA).Methods A total of 50 patients who had undergone single-knee TKA surgery were selected and divided into 2 groups of 25 patients each:the study group and the control group.The control group was given patient-controlled epidural analgesia while the study group was given comprehensive pain management.The two groups were compared in terms of score on pain within 7 days after operation,knee joint activity and the incidence of adverse reaction within 10 days after operation(the 1st,3rd,7th,10th day).Results Within 7 days,the scores on pain in the study were significantly lower than those in the control group(P<0.05).The scores on the knee joint activity in the study group on the 1st,3rd,7th,10th day were significantly higher than those in the control group(P<0.05)and the incidences of adverse reaction were significantly lower as well (P<0.05).Conclusion Comprehensive pain management is effective for post-surgery pain control and the hastened TKA patients, and the improved quality of life.
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Anti-inflammatory and analgesic and antipyretic and gastrointestinal ulcerogenic activities of ketoprofen 2-(3-benzoylphenyl -propionic acid) were investigated in experimental animals.Anti-inflammatory potency of ketoprofen was almost equal to that of indomethacin in carrageenin, yeast or nystatin-incluced hind paw edema and in acetic acid-induced increase of vascular permeability.Oral analgesic ED50-value of ketoprofen was on the whole campa-rable to that of indomethacin.Ketoprofen exerted a strong antipyretic action at oral doses in rats and its potency (ED50-1.22 mg/kg) was 2.3 times of that of indomethacin. However, ulcerogenicity of ketoprofen was weeker than that of indomethacin safety index and therapeutic index (SUD60/ED50 and LD60/ED40) of ketoprofen were greater than that of indomethacin and extremely great (the index ratio=114.7/4.5 ) in the antipyretic activity. It was suggested from these findings that ketoprofen is a potent anti-inflammatory drug with analgesic and antipyretic actions superior to indomethacin and a wide safety margin.