Hello, my HIVE friends, I hope you are well wherever you are.

Today, I come to talk to You a little about the accidents that can happen to older adults if they are not careful ⚠️. And I am going to explain it to you through a clinical case.

This is a 79-year-old female patient, who was brought by her son to the emergency room today because she presented trauma on her face, due to a fall on the street floor, with open wounds on the forehead, upper eyelid of the left eye and upper jaw, of approximately 2 to 3 centimeters each, there was also evidence of hematoma on the right cheekbone. And for all the above said, conduct is decided.

Because of that, it was explained to both the family member and the patient that she should be sutured, but, I open parenthesis here (In our integral health center or better known as CDI we do not have enough medical supplies to perform this type of things, many times we have to explain that to the patients and tell them that they should buy the missing things to be able to perform any procedure, like today's suture), and the family member was told to go buy what is missing, in order to perform the suture to the patient.

What she was instructed to buy:

1. Suture: Nailon 5.0
2. Gloves
3. Insulin injector

Once he brought them I proceeded to perform the suture, the first thing was to clean the area and the wound both outside and inside, since the fall was on pavement and there is a lot of dirt there, if we then do not clean it well may remain traces of dirt there and infect the wound, after that I proceed to place the local anesthesia, and from there we start by facing the middle and then the two sides, I did so with each of the wounds mentioned above, it is cleaned again to remove some of the blood that was left there and treatment is indicated for her home, both antibiotics to prevent any infection and analgesics to help the pain and inflammation, also indicated to clean with water and blue soap daily and in 10 days at most to return to remove the stitches.

The patient was very happy with the treatment we gave her, and we hope for a speedy recovery.

What I want you to learn from this today?, That many times we let grandparents fend for themselves, just because we do not want them to become senile, or not to suffer from a sedentary lifestyle, when in fact what we have to do is to look after their welfare, let them do things alone but to a certain extent, because of course at that age there are many limitations and we must explain to them the risks they have because of their advanced age.

This grandmother was recommended that from now on, if she goes out or walks around her house, she should wear closed shoes, since the accident of the fall was due to wearing sandals, try not to go out alone as much as possible, ask for help if she needs to climb stairs, among other things. Also give her a lot of psychological support and give her a lot of love.

Thank you for coming this far, I hope you liked it.