THE SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF EMERGENCE AND TREATMENT OF COMPLICATIONS IN PATIENTS REQUIRING LONG-TERM CARE

Abstract

The caregivers often have to find a balance between work and family life, as well as cope with emotional, physical, financial and psychological stress, since the caregivers help people fight often life-threatening diseases. In order to cope with this task, the guidance and assistance of medical personnel, in particular nurses, is often necessary to cope with the problems occurring in treatment of and care for patients with protracted disease. Long-term care includes a variety of services designed to meet the health needs or self-care needs of a person over an extended period of time. These services help people live as independently and safely as possible when they can no longer capable of their daily activities on their own. The data for this project was to investigate the specific aspects of emergence and treatment of complications in patients requiring long-term care. Patients with the diseases that require prolonged treatment and care were diagnosed with complications, including such events as pressure ulcers, various types of nosocomial infection, pneumonia and catheter-associated urinary tract infections. In the study were used special scientific research methods: clinical examination and history collection, surgical examination, neurological examination, examination by an internist, as well as laboratory tests, including clinical pathology, bacteriology and instrumental assessments. For the scientific analysis of study results, were used the scientific methods of comparison, system analysis and statistical methods. It was studied the problems occurring in treatment of and care for patients with protracted disease, investigated the risks for the causes, and the principles guiding treatment and prevention of nosocomial infection in long-term inpatient treatment and protracted disease. It was studied the specific aspects in development of nosocomial pneumonia, as well as pneumonia in patients with a prolonged and severe course of disease and the specific aspects of occurrence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.