Question

discuss conditions which puts clients at higher risk for bleeding

Answer 1

The major risk factors of bleeding includes co-morbidities such as high blood pressure, cerebrovascular disease, recent surgery or trauma, neoplasia, heart disease, diabetes mellitus, kidney failure, liver failure, a history of gastrointestinal bleeding and chronic alcoholism. Furthermore, other factors such as drug compliance, a patient’s knowlwdge of his/her treatment and use of an anticoagulation booklet have been extensively evaluated.

Bleeding complications affects a variety of organs, some of them are life-threatning such as intracranial, pericardial, intra-abdominal and digestive hemorrhages. Life threatening or functional complications affects the cental nervous system. Gastrointestinal lesions in the preceding 3 months and trauma in the preceding 2 weeks were significantly more frequent in the bleeding group than in the nonbleeding group. Alchohol consumption is also a significant cause of bleeding in patients. In the recent study a wide range of potential risk factor accessed in bleeding includes a history of digestive leisions.

Other risk factors for bleeding include age, gender. However, the impact odfa given risk factors varies from one study to another. There is a consensus that the increased risk of bleeding in the elderly people is more and is a multifractional phenomenon.