Effect of humanistic nursing intervention on the elderly patients with postoperative cognitive dysfunction after anesthesia of thoracic surgery
Abstract：Objective:To investigate the effect of humanistic nursing intervention on the elderly patients with postoperative cogni-tive dysfunction after anesthesia of thoracic surgery .Methods:32 elderly patients with postoperative cognitive dysfunction after an-esthesia of thoracic surgery were randomly divided into the observation group and the control group (16 cases in each group) .The patients in the control group were given routine postoperative nursing care and the patients in the observation group were addition-ally given humanistic nursing intervention .The nursing effects and MMSE score were compared between the two groups .Results :No serious complications occurred in the patients in both groups ;the average hospitalization time was significantly shorter in the observation group than the control group (P<0 .05);the treatment compliance and satisfaction of the patients and MMSE score was significantly higher in the observation group than the control group (P<0 .05 ,P<0 .01) .Conclusion:Implementation of the targeted nursing intervention can obviously improve the cognitive state of elderly patients with postoperative cognitive dysfunction after anesthesia of thoracic surgery .
Keywords：Elderly patientsHumanistic nursing interventionAnesthesia in thoracic surgeryCognitive dysfunction
Publication Date：2014-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 7-9 )