Nursing care of lumbar burst fracture

Dr. Casey Young
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2025-05-22 22:00:05 Views: 29 times

Burst fractures of the lumbar spine are very common in clinical practice and are often caused by severe violent trauma, especially falling injuries from heights and serious traffic accidents, which can cause significant pain, swelling and severe dysfunction in the lumbar spine. If it shows nerve damage, it will also show different degrees of paralysis symptoms, even show incontinence, for this type of fracture must actively strictly lie in bed, defecation and defecation should be solved in bed, can not sit up, can not stand and walk, when turning over, the body should be turned over in a line, that is, the normal axial turning. In addition, we must strengthen psychological care, communicate actively with patients, actively reduce some anxiety emotions, in addition to eating more easily digestible food, because lumbar burst fracture is easy to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction, causing abdominal pain, abdominal distension, eat more egg soup, noodles and other foods.

Nursing care of lumbar burst fracture



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