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Head Injury 頭部外傷治療出院後注意事項
Head Injury 頭部外傷治療出院後注意事項
2024/1/30
What is head injury?
Head injury occurs when patients suffer from head and brain tissue injuries of violent forces, car accidents, or falling conditions.
Common symptoms
- Headache
- Sleepiness
- Transient memory loss
- Apathy
- Disorientation of time and places
- Nausea, vomiting, and dizziness
- Inability to move and restlessness
- Fixed and dilated pupil
- Coma and even death
Treatment and Nursing
- Keep airway patent to prevent chocking and aspiration pneumonia.
- Observe changes of coma condition: check on the patients every 15 minutes for the initial phases and then once every 1-4 hours.
- Have patients take anticonvulsants to prevent seizure.
- Maintain balance between electrolyte and body fluid.
- Patients with complications like increased intracranial pressure, doctors would prescribe medications to reduce it.
Pay attention to:
- During hospitalization
- No food is allowed at the first day of the head injury; patients would be given some soup, milk, or juice on the 2nd day; no food intake if vomiting occurs.
- When patients rest in bed, have them sleep with their head slightly lifted to 30 degree; avoid exertions like coughing and defecation.
- Inform our medical staff immediately if there is any transparent liquid and bloody discharg from nose or ears; also do not sneeze or pick any external acoustic meatus.
- Local ice packing for injured scalp.
- Please return to emergence room if any of following situations occur:
- Severe headache
- Severe neck stiffness and pain
- Continuous vomiting
- Dyspnea
- Sleepiness or unconsciousness
- Numbness, weakness, and convulsion of the four limbs, weakness, convulsion.
- Clear to pink otorrhea or rhinorrhea
- Seizure
- Unknown causes of fever
- Self-care at home
- Bed rest
- Maintain dryness and cleanness of the wound; avoid direct exposure of sunlight
- Take medication on time
- Outpatient Department follow up on time.
Conclusions
- There is no brain saving drug available now but diuretic drugs for lowering intracranial pressure.
- The symptoms of headache and dizziness may last for days to weeks; do not panic and just follow the instructions given by the doctors and have plenty of rest.
- If there is no apparent change of a patient’s conscious status, no CT scan is required and it is mostly preserved for surgical decision making and outcome prediction. Such a examination is arranged by the doctors according to patients’ conditions.
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