Does the burn in the elderly develop worse?
Within Virginia Henderson needs there
is a section to maintain personal
hygiene and skin integrity.
We check the integrity of the skin, and in the
case of a burn it should be reflected in the nursing attention process. The data that we value must
be written down in the patient's medical history. Such as, product type that caused the burn.
In elderly
people, cell regeneration is slower making it more difficult to heal burns. So it is true that in the elderly the evolution of burns develops
more slowly, and there are pathologies associated such as diabetes
that may not heal well.
Therefore the
nutritional needs have to be increased.
There must be an adequate supply of nutrients and proteins. Thanks to this we will help to reduce septic morbidity for sepsis, and the length of hospital stays will decrease.
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