الجمعة، 19 أغسطس 2016

Important Steps To Apply For Aspiration Pneumonia Prevention

By Virginia Ward


Pneumonia is basically viewed as the fourth highly killing disease regardless of the accessibility of new effective antimicrobials in japan. This disease is basically a common cause of deaths especially to the elderly disabled persons. It has been viewed that this disease among the elderly people is mostly caused by in apparent swallowing disorder. There are several strategies which can be applied for aspiration pneumonia prevention amongst the elderly disabled people.

There basically exists some treatment guidelines especially for the older people specifically those who possibly possess lower infection exists, a demand for greater emphasis on prevention methods for aspiration requires keen attention. Death threats posed by this kind of disease to the older generation may actually be staggering. There are three risky factors which significantly contribute to the spread of this kind of infection.

The major three risk factors commonly associated with the spread of this kind of disease include use of some kind of medication, dysphagia and poor oral hygiene. Identifying and trying to address these three risky factors can actually be an important step to take in protection of well-being and health of most vulnerable generations.

A study carried out among the aged people shown that among the aged people who had a mean of eighty three years of age most of them had not visited a dentist in duration of about five years. Reduced dental hygiene offers a huge impact on the health of aged people which encompasses both risk for aspiration and pneumonia.

It has also been viewed that nasogastric tubes tend to stimulate aspiration of such gastric content especially by damaging swallowing. This causes stagnation of the oropharyngeal secretions and thus limiting the tone of lower esophageal sphincter. All these problems may be possibly curved by elevating the head of an individual to bed.

The main goal of this is to basically increase the safety conditions for oral feeding especially if it has been compromised. Some of the methods which have been successfully applied in the management of this condition include swallowing therapy and posture changes, tube feeding and dietary modification.

It is important to avoid elderly talks when engaging in communications with residents. Elderly speech has been viewed as kind of communication that closely looks like a baby talk. This is because it mostly involves use of sentences which are fragmented, some simple vocabularies, high tone pitch as well as repetition.

Poor dental hygiene provides a very significant impact on overall health which is inclusive of associated pneumonia and risk for aspiration. There are various techniques which can be applied in addressing barriers to oral care. Some of the techniques involve management of mouth care resistant behaviors, educating the LTC staff concerning oral care procedures and possibly addressing accountability.




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