提昇病人使用連續被動運動器正確性之改善方案 | 合法醫療器材資訊網

Continuous Passive Motion (also called CPM) equipment is used for patients with knee trauma, after knee operation, after total knee replacement operation, or with knee limitation due to disease. It is important to provide passive knee joint exercise to prevent synarthrosis. It is also common to see conflict between patients while using CPM equipment in orthopedic unit. It is found that each CPM equipment was used for 10 hours averaging 2-3 patients per day and was sent to repair up to 10 times and averaging 5.5 times for 3-14 days per month for the year of 2005 in our orthopedic unit. Data showed that nurse’s knowledge about operating CPM equipment was 77.8%.Nurses’ accuracy of operating CPM equipment was 75%. Patient and family’s accuracy of operating CPM equipment was 69%. After providing continuing education for nurses, establishing flow chart of operation and malfunction exclusion process for nurses, patient and family, and installing continuing monit...