抄録
This study is to be done prior to developping the nursing program which promote postoperative early ambulation safely and effectively for elderly patients, and to examine whether changes of respiration, circulation and muscle strength in the postoperative first ambulation are influenced by ages, postoperative days and benign or malignant diseases.
29 surgical patients with gastro-intestinal diseases aged 40 years old to 80 years old were investigated.
Findings were as followings.
Circulation;
The changes of pulse rates, blood pressure and the pattern of ECG, and the complaints of general fatigue and floating feeling of body were appeared most in patients of seventies and eighties of ages, and of ambulation on from 5th to 7th postoperative day.
Muscle strength;
The longer the period to reach to the ambulation, the lesser the circumference of femoral muscles.
The circumference of femoral muscles of patients with malignant diseases decreased more than that of patients with benign diseases.
Unsteadiness of feet was much complained by the patients above 60 years old, and the patients who ambulated late.
