Objective To investigate the injury characteristics of 33 children of Lushan earthquake victims no more than 14 years old treated in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University, and to put forward the early rehabilitation strategy. Methods A total of 33 earthquake children victims were investigated with the modified barthel index score (MBI) and analyzed in following aspects: age, causes, and injury. Results a) The 33 children victims accounted for 10.28% of the total earthquake victims treated in the hospital, they were all no more than 14 years old, and the average age was 7.24 years old. 17 cases were fractures of trunk and limbs, six were traumatic brain injury, and four were soft tissue injury. b) The main traumatic causes were crush by falling objects and heavy stuffs; and some children rarely suffered from hurt, burn and fall injury when running. c) Most children victims were simple open injuries and fractures, especially the limbs fractures accounted for 51.51% of the total cases, and there was only one case suffered from abdominal organ injuries. d) Among 33 children victims, 30 (90.9%) were from the towns and villages. They mainly got injured by the collapse of house or courtyard walls which were not as ber as the house in the cities, so the incidence of severe injury was lower, the degree of injury was milder, and the injury of major organ was rarer. Conclusion Early rehabilitation treatment is helpful to prevent the complications and early recover the functions. It suggests the early rehabilitation treatment should be carried out for the earthquake children victims in order to promote the fracture healing and functional recovery, as well as to prevent the complications. In addition, attention should also be paid to the psychological problems while concerning rehabilitation training.
Objective To report the screening, prevention and treatment of venous thrombosis for Lushan earthquake victims in the West China Hospital of Sichuan University. Methods Among the Lushan earthquake victims screened by vascular color Doppler, those with detected venous thrombosis were treated reasonably, and those without detected venous thrombosis were prevented early. Results There were total 235 Lushan earthquake victims in the hospital as of the 11th day after earthquake, and they were screened by vascular color Doppler. Among 26 cases with detected venous thrombosis, 25 were lower limb venous thrombosis, and the other one was upper limb venous thrombosis. Three cases were treated by rehabilitation intervention alone, three cases were treated by drug intervention alone, and the other 20 cases were treated by both rehabilitation and drug intervention. As of 30 days after the earthquake, the reexamination results of 26 victims with venous thrombosis showed that: 11 cases improved, including 5 completely recanalization and 6 incompletely recanalization. Among the three cases with drug intervention alone, one got completely recanalization, accounted for 33.33%. Among the three cases with rehabilitation intervention alone, one got incompletely recanalization, accounted for 33.33%. Among the 20 cases with both rehabilitation and drug intervention, four got completely recanalization, accounted for 20.0%, and five got incompletely recanalization, accounted for 25.0%. Conclusion Most Lushan earthquake victims with venous thrombosis are the elderly and women, stay in the ICU, and suffer from fractures in different degrees. The timely prevention and treatment can relieve local pain, promote early entry in the rehabilitation treatment, and prevent pulmonary embolism and other risks. The rehabilitation intervention and/or drug intervention should be adopted to the victims with detected venous thrombosis as well as the victims without detected venous thrombosis but have high risk factors, for it can effectively prevent and treat the further thrombosis and other bad consequences of the detachment of thrombus.
Spinal cord injury (SCI) patients are high-risk groups of hospitalized patients with venous thrombosis embolism (VTE). VTE is one of the important causes of inpatients’ unexpected death and perioperative accidental death, so SCI patients with VTE deserve special attention. In recent years, the risk factors, epidemiological characteristics, pathogenesis, and prevention of VTE have been further understood. We also have a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the treatment of venous thrombosis, including general prevention, drug, interventional surgery, rehabilitation, etc. Non-invasive examination, new therapeutic technologies, and new oral anticoagulant drugs have also greatly promoted the prevention and treatment of VTE. Meanwhile, prevention system of VTE has been developed from single subject work gradually to the multidisciplinary, multiple grades and doctor-patient cooperation mode, is no longer just dominated by clinical departments, but dominated by hospitals and even higher level department, and a more scientific and effective management mode has being under construction, all of these will further optimize the clinical prevention and treatment of venous thrombosis.
Objective? To investigate the dysfunction information of children suffering from Wenchuan earthquake and analyze their rehabilitation requirements. Methods A survey of rehabil itation requirements of 87 children with earthquake injuries was performed using self-made questionnaires. Results Among the 87 children investigated, 64.4% suffered from restricted joint range of motion, 95.4% had abnormal sensory (pain occupying 89.7%). Conclusion The earl ier the patients received the rehabilitation therapy, the better for them to recover functions, improve activity ability in daily life and promote participation ability.
Objective
To explore the referral patterns for rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) in community hospitals and establish green channel for SCI rehabilitation between community hospitals and large comprehensive hospitals.
Methods
Thirty SCI patients who were referred from the Center of Rehabilitation Medicine, West China Hospital to community hospitals between February 2013 and June 2014 were selected for this study. All the patients were assessed with American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA 2011), activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL). Based on the assessment results, rehabilitation plan was made and the patients underwent community rehabilitation treatment.
Results
After rehabilitation treatment in community hospitals, the scores of ASIA, ADL and IADL in all the SCI patients were significantly higher than those at the time of referral (P<0.001).
Conclusions
SCI patients can accept rehabilitation treatment in community hospitals with good conditions. This practice can provide a new type of seamless referral pattern between large comprehensive hospitals and community hospitals for rehabilitation of SCI patients.
A 7.0 Ms earthquake hit Lushan country at Ya’an city of Sichuan province at 8:02 am, on April 20th, 2013. Rehabilitation medicine department of the West China Hospital, a regional state-level hospital arrived at stricken area, and super early rehabilitation rescue was organized at the second day after Lushan earthquake. On the third day after Lushan earthquake, patients receiving super early rehabilitation intervention were moved forward to orthopedics, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, pediatric surgery and ICU for super early rehabilitation intervention. Up to 6 pm, 14 days after the earthquake, 69 wounded in total were admitted in early rehabilitation. The experiences of Wenchuan earthquake has been applied, improved and sublimated more rapidly, more appropriately, more effectively in the Lushan earthquake rehabilitation rescue.
