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The matters of patients foreknowledge about inhalant systems.
BLÁHOVÁ, Zdeňka
This bachelor thesis follows up the problems of awareness of patients about inhalation systems. It focuses primarily on who and how the patients are informed about the handeling with inhalation systems, how patients can handle with inhalation systems, which mistakes they are doing, and which inhalation system suits the patients best. It is about patients, who have bronchial asthma of they suffer from chronical obstructive pulmonary disease. The theoretical part deals with bronchial asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It focuses on definitions of both asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. It also deals with their causes, symptoms, classification, diagnosis and treatment. In the next part, this bachelor thesis deals with are inhalation systems, types of inhalation systems, and their handling. At the end of the theoretical part is mentioned the role of the nurse in the education proces of the patient, within the proper handling of the inhalation system. The research part was processed by qualitative research. The data collection technique was semi-structured interview and observation. The interview was made up of 21 questions and the observation was written down in an observation sheet. The research group consisted of 11 patients, 4 of whom had chronical obstructive pulmonary disease and 7 patients had bronchial asthma. It came out from the research that the informations are forwarded to the patients by the doctors. Nurses are not very involved in forwarding informations to the patients, even though they have the necessary competencies to do so. Furthermore, the research had revealed that nurses spend only a few time with patients, in some cases just a few minutes. As part of a doctor's check, it became clear that nurses only control the patient's inhalation technique, only when patients are learning to handle with the inhalation system. Over time, they do not control the inhalation technique of the patients and therefore patients practice their inhalation technique wrong and make mistakes. It has emerged that the most widely used inhalation system is an aerosol dispenser, despite the fact that the powder inhaler is easier to handle. Furthermore,it became clear that patients were the most mistaken in aerosol dispensers. From the research came out, that the patients make the most mistakes, while using aerosol dispensers. The most common mistake are not holding the breath and not shaking the inhaler. With powder inhalers, patients made mistakes too. The fault was mainly in the exhalation through the inhaler, in the small force of the inhalation, and holding the inhalator in wrong position. Based on these results, there was made an helpful information brochure which will help all patients, who can not handle their inhalation system correctly.
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