The fourth session of the "Geriatric Medical Care and Health Management Salon" of the Chinese Geriatric Society arrived on October 21 as scheduled. Old friends and new friends gathered together to learn the elderly health management and medical care knowledge. The salon attracted nearly 60 people from elderly care institutions, families of patients and other participants, a new high number of participants. Qin Xiaoling, Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Geriatric Society, attended the event and delivered a speech, presided over by Director Liu Yu.

Today, we will continue to review a typical case. A 71-year-old man, whose blood sugar rose sharply to 41mmol/L, fell into a coma, accompanied by stroke, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. After hospitalization, blood sugar basically returned to normal. During the period, pneumonia occurred due to coughing during meals, and gastric tube was inserted into the nasal feeding. Long-term care and treatment are required after discharge.

In the first three salons, we have discussed the nasal feeding care of the elderly, shared some knowledge of common elderly emergencies, diabetes management and diabetic foot protection. Today, Director Hu Yixin and Head nurse Sun Jing led us to discuss how to manage blood pressure for the elderly, how to correctly measure the data of the body and do a good job as a "scout" of the body.

Hu Yixin emphasized that the goal of blood pressure reduction in the elderly is special, and it should be combined with the degree of physical weakness, and introduced several means of frailty assessment; Hypertension medication is different from person to person, we should comprehensively consider rational drug use for the body; She tells us in plain language some of the factors that cause hypertension; Hypertension can lead to many adverse consequences such as left ventricular hypertrophy heart failure, cerebral hemorrhage, infarction, renal failure, uremia, fundus arteriosclerosis and hemorrhage. The clinical characteristics of hypertension, let everyone suddenly see the light. The main points of hypertension prevention and care are: frequent measurement and observation of body feelings and changes, maintaining a good lifestyle, reasonable exercise, healthy eating habits with less oil smoke, smoking cessation and other bad habits; Develop good medication habits, avoid the occurrence of sudden stopping of medicine and changing medicine by yourself, which are important factors causing hypertension instability. Many present patients' families and nursing home professionals have benefited from hearing this.

Head Nurse Sun Jing taught everyone how to measure body temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar correctly with concise language and skillful operation; How to retain first-hand data as the best reference for doctors' judgment; How to judge the data to do their own body "scout";. Once again, the lively explanation and well-prepared practical content were well received. The event ended successfully in a happy atmosphere.