Assessment of choke risks in inpatients with mental disorders and nursing strategies

VernacularTitle:精神疾病住院患者噎食风险评估与护理对策
Author: Chong WANG ¹ ; Fei-Fei LI ; Dong-Mei XU
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1. 北京回龙观医院
Keywords: Inpatients; Mental disorders; Choke; Risk assessment; Nursing
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2011;17(9):1051-1053
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To analyze the causes of food choking and assess its risk so as to prevent its occurrence. Methods We made choking risk evaluation scale by analyzing the food choking events, which happened to inpatients. The scale was adopted to assess the choking risks of 1364 inpatients with mental disorders, the results shown that 166 cases had the risk; thus further targeted nursing was applied in them to get rid of the risk. Results The incidence rate of choking in intervention period (from October, 2009 to February, 2010) was significantly lower that in the control period (from March, 2009 to August, 2009) (P <0. 05). Conclusions it is effective to prevent incidence of food choking by dynamically assessing food choking risks, establishing corresponding management system and performing nursing interventions on inpatients with mental disorders.