Nursing care of a patient after limb amputation - case study

Jędrzejkiewicz Bernadeta. Nursing care of a patient after limb amputation - case study. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2019;9(9):424-429. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3408523 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/7429 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2019; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.09.2019. Revised: 14.09.2019. Accepted: 15.09.2019. Nursing care of a patient after limb amputation - case study Jędrzejkiewicz Bernadeta 1 1 Doctoral student, Department of Family Medicine and Environmental Health, Faculty of Sciences on Health, Medical University of Lublin Abstract Amputation is the operative, partial or complete cutting off of an organ; the term mainly used for limbs. Traumatic amputation of the limb is one of the oldest surgical procedures. Currently, thanks to the progress of medicine, it is performed less and less often, mainly in cases of malignant tumors, advanced ischemia or complete interruption of blood circulation in the limbs, and also with significant traumatic injuries. The missing part of the limb can be filled with a prosthesis. The most preferred is amputation of the myoplastic limb, i.e. cutting off the limb in a suitable place, or part thereof, followed by suturing of antagonistic muscle groups together and peripheral cutting of the stump bone. Thanks to myoplastic amputation, a functional, well-supplied and painless stump is obtained, suitable for prosthesis. Key words: amputation; nursing care; nurse diagnosi