JIN Xiang. Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Nursing for a Patient with Acute Renal Failure Complicated by Diabetic Ketoacidosis[DB/OL].Clinical archives of integrative medicine, 2025.
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JIN Xiang. Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Nursing for a Patient with Acute Renal Failure Complicated by Diabetic Ketoacidosis[DB/OL].Clinical archives of integrative medicine, 2025. DOI: 10.12209/CAIM202505250001.
Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Nursing for a Patient with Acute Renal Failure Complicated by Diabetic Ketoacidosis
This article summarizes the practice and experience of applying integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine (TCM-WM) nursing to successfully treat an 87-year-old patient with acute renal failure (ARF) complicated by diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Western medical interventions included monitoring vital signs, arterial catheter placement, assessing hemodialysis catheter patency and maintaining it with heparinized saline flushes and locks, bedside continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH mode, citrate anticoagulation), dynamic monitoring of blood gas and electrolytes, non-invasive ventilator support, anti-infective therapy, fluid resuscitation and acidosis correction, potassium reduction, insulin pump for glycemic control, and nasogastric enteral nutrition. Traditional Chinese medicine interventions were tailored to the patient’s syndrome differentiation of "diarrhea disorder due to spleen-stomach deficiency syndrome." These included applying Chinese herbal hot compress packs to warm the spleen and dispelling cold, acupoint application at Danzhong (CV17) to regulate chest qi, auricular acupressure with magnetic beads to regulate visceral functions, and moxibustion at Zusanli (ST36) to strengthen the spleen. Throughout the care process, dynamic monitoring of hemofiltration circuit status, acid-base balance, and blood glucose was emphasized, with integrated TCM-Western interventions synergistically promoting clinical stabilization.
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