Clinical Effect of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Nursing Intervention in Elderly Patients with Chronic Bronchitis

HUANG Xiaohong

doi:10.13919/j.issn.2095-6274.J202403067

Abstract：Objective To analyze the clinical effectiveness of providing integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine nursing care for elderly patients with chronic bronchitis.Methods A retrospective analysis was conducted on 80 elderly patients with chronic bronchitis who visited the internal medicine department of our hospital from January 2023 to December 2023.According to the order of admission,they were divided into the study group(40 patients)and the control group(40 patients).The control group received routine nursing services,while the study group was provided traditional Chinese medicine nursing interventions on the basis of routine nursing services.We compared the time of cough relief,disappearance of rales,relief of asthma,and cessation of fever between two groups of study subjects.Also,we compared the time for the disappearance of clinical symptoms and the length of hospital stay between two groups of patients.results The disappearance of lung rales,asthma relief,fever resolution,and cough relief time in the study group were shorter than those in the control group,and the difference was statistically significant(P＜0.05).The disappearance time of wheezing,sputum,and cough and the time of hospital stay in the study group were shorter than those in the control group,and the differences were statistically significant(P＜0.05).Conclusion The combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine nursing can help to improve the treatment effect and quality of life of patients,accelerate the disappearance of symptoms,and is worthy of wide application in the nursing work of elderly chronic bronchitis.