This research was implemented to provide foundation information of nursing care provision to the proper age group by searching for the difference between general characteristics of Traumatic Acute Subdural Hematoma and disease-related characteristics,...
This research was implemented to provide foundation information of nursing care provision to the proper age group by searching for the difference between general characteristics of Traumatic Acute Subdural Hematoma and disease-related characteristics, and comparing prognosis within two groups; adult group and elderly group based on 65-year-old subjects.
In this study, the test subjects were 239 patients(adult 104, the elder 135) diagnosed with traumatic subdural hematoma and treated at C University Hospital in Gwang-ju between January 2017 and March 2019. A retrospective medical survey study was conducted to investigate the general and disease-related characteristics of the subjects, GCS and GOS scores at discharge, and pre-hospital and post-hospital status. The data is collected by Win SPSS 25.0 and analyzed using test, t-test, and ANOVA.
The results of this study are as follows.
The general characteristics of the people surveyed were 50.90±11.86 years of age in the adult group and 75.04±6.1 years in the elderly group. There was a significant difference in gender(=20.776, p=.041) between the adult and the elderly, and there was a statistically significant difference in the presence or absence of comorbidities.(=20.776, p<.001). There was also a significant difference in the history of drinking(=20.117, p<.001) and of smoking(=22.485, p<.001) between the two groups. There was a statistically significant difference in job status between the two groups(=20.850, p<.001). The two groups showed statistically significant differences in traumatic occurrence(=20.029, p=.003); adults came in orders of 34.6% of falling down and 25.0% of slipping, and 39.3% of slipping and 17.8% of falling down in the elderly group.
The disease-related characteristics of the people surveyed were statistically significant at GCS of 10.24±4.449 in the adult group and 11.44±3.674 in the elderly group(=-2.221, p=.028). There was a significant difference in pupil reflection at admission(=8.037, p=.005), but there was no significant difference in pupil reflection during admission(=0.544, p=.461). There were significant differences in pH(=-3.299, p=.001) and Serum blood glucose(=-0.849, p=.040) between the two groups at admission. There were significant differences in systolic blood pressure(=-3.097, p=.002) between adult and elderly groups. There was also a statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of history of surgery(=10.159, p=.001) and complications(=6.450, p=.011).
There was no statistically significant difference between the GCS at discharge(t=-0.027, p=.978) and the GOS at discharge(t=0.173, p=.863) after comparing the clinical results of the people surveyed. However, when examined in detail there were significant differences in GCS, pupil reflection at admission, pupil reflection during admission, hematoma type, INR, hyperglycemia, blood pressure, and history of surgery.
Through out the result of this study proved both adult and elderly group with traumatic acute subdural hematoma after admission resulted in better prognosis after admission with higher GCS at admission. With the cases of existence of pupil reflection at admission, or without any change during admission, small size hematoma, low INR, normal range in blood sugar, maintaining high blood pressure, and patients without surgery showed good prognosis after admission in two groups: adult and elderly. Therefore, nurses need to provide care service to the subject group with traumatic acute subdural hematoma at the site of clinic in consideration of the study mentioned above.