• Determine cause of activity intolerance (see Related Factors) and determine whether cause is physical, psychological, or motivational. Determining the cause of an illness can help lead appropriate interventions. • Assess customer for appropriateness of activity and bed rest purchases daily. Inappropriate prolonged bed rest orders may contribute to activity intolerance.
• Minimize cardiovascular deconditioning by positioning clients as near to the upright position as you can many times daily. The dangers of bed rest in the elderly are multiple, serious, quick to build up, and decrease to reverse. • If appropriate, increase activity gradually, allowing client to aid with positioning, transferring, and self-care as you can. Progress from sitting down during intercourse to dangling, to chair sitting, to position, to ambulation. Increasing activity really helps to maintain muscle power, tone, and stamina.
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• Make sure that clients change position gradually. Consider using a chair-bed (stretcher-chair) for clients who cannot get out of bed. Monitor for symptoms of activity intolerance. • When getting clients up, see for symptoms of intolerance such as nausea, pallor, dizziness, visual dimming, and impaired awareness, as well as changes in essential signs.
Heart rate and blood pressure reactions to orthostasis differ widely. • Perform range-of-motion exercises if client is unable to tolerate activity. Inactivity rapidly plays a part in muscle shortening and changes in periarticular and cartilaginous joint structure. • Refer …