An emergency nursing and monitoring procedure on cognitive impairment and neurological function recovery in patients with acute cerebral infarction

BACKGROUND: The optimization and standardization of emergency nursing and monitoring procedures are of great significance for thrombolytic treatment of acute cerebral infarction. OBJECTIVE: Studies on the emergency nursing and monitoring procedure on cognitive impairment and neurological function in patients with acute cerebral infarction are still limited. METHODS: The study was a randomized controlled trial and 134 patients with acute cerebral infarction were recruited. They were randomly arranged into the control group (n = 67) receiving normal nursing procedure and the intervention group (n = 67) receiving emergency nursing and monitoring procedure after pre-intervention assessment. The cognitive impairment, neurological function and levels of inflammatory biomarkers and neuron-specific enolase of the participants were evaluated and analyzed. RESULTS: Emergency nursing and monitoring procedure improved Mini-mental State Examination and Montreal Cognitive Assessment scores of patients with cerebral infraction compared with the control group. It also improved the scores of National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale, activities of daily living scale, Fugl-Meyer scale in the participants. Emergency nursing and monitoring procedure led to significantly decreased neuron-specific enolase and inflammatory cytokines in the serum of the participants. CONCLUSION: Emergency nursing and monitoring procedure are beneficial for cognitive impairment and neurological function recovery in patients with acute cerebral infarction.