Abstract
Objective To analyze the correlation factors and to explore the care measures of postopera-tive delirium in elderly patients with tension - free inguinal hernia repairing. Methods 185 cases of elderly pa-tients with tension - free inguinal hernia repairing were analyzed by single - factor analysis and multi - factor logis-tic regression analysis. Results 24 cases of patients with delirium was delirium group, 161 cases who had not de-lirium was non - delirium group. The average age of delirium group, surgical time, the degree of postoperative wound pain, and the incidence of lumbodynia, the original brain heart and lung disease, dysuria, constipation, postoperative use of analgesics were significantly higher than those of non - delirium group (P<0.01～0.05) . Conclusions The occurrence of postoperative delirium in elderly patients with tension -free inguinal hernia re-pairing is correlated with age, operative time, postoperative pain, heart disease, lung disease, brain disease, dys-uria, constipation, postoperative use of analgesics, degree of postoperative wound pain. Key words: Elderly; Inguinal hernia; Tension-free repairing; Delirium; Nursing
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