Patients in the control group were given conventional nursing care,including sitting in semi-Fowler s position 6 h after the operation and then turning over every 2-4 h.

A kind of multifunction turn-over bed for paralyzed patients is introduced in this paper,which has the functions of raising head,curling legs,side turning over from left to right separately,or raising head and curling legs at the same time according to patient’s requirement.