Voorbeelden van bedridden

• Therefore, although acute gastroenteritis is generally a self-limiting mild disease, this bedridden population is at increased risk for complications and death.

• Both remained aware of their surroundings and able to make slight movements, although permanently bedridden.

• In this case, the substitute is a dying woman, who is bedridden for over a year with a painfully swollen foot.

• Patients were excluded if, prior to the fracture, they were completely dependent and bedridden or if they were functionally independent.

• The twin foci are care for the severely frail and bedridden aged and health education.

• During the qualitative fieldwork, however, people who were bedridden or who demonstrated symptoms of dementia were sought out.

• A spinal fusion was required to straighten this and prevent his becoming totally bedridden.

• I was trying to think of myself as an old, old man, bedridden.

• Nurses also avoided using aids which are known to irritate the s kin of bedridden patients, such as a drawsheet and massage.

• She's not bedridden or nothing like that.

• However, there were strongly significant differences across groups in the proportion of subjects reporting constant fatigue, being bedridden or shut-in because of fatigue, and in exertion pattern.

• They also collected data daily during two weeks about staff numbers and structure, other personnel in the ward, patient numbers and the proportion of patients who were bedridden.

• Ataxia was not investigated because the patient was bedridden and could not respond to the instructions of the psychiatrist because of delirium.

• Wolpert et al.117 found that underweight bedridden residents treated with norbolathane for two months had improved mood and social interest when compared to placebo, but weight did not change.

• Sheepskins have moved from beneath the bedridden elderly to the pride of place in front of fireplaces.