Effect of postural nursing intervention on preventing pressure injury after thoracolumbar incision and internal fixation in southern China

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of postural nursing intervention on patients with moderate pressure ulcers through posterior thoracolumbar incision and internal fixation. A total of 100 patients were divided into a control group and an experimental group. The satisfaction rate of nursing care, incidence of complications, hospital stay, incidence of pressure ulcers, and VAS score of pain before and after operation were recorded in the 2 groups. Compared with the control group, the patients in the experimental group has higher satisfaction rate, shorter hospitalization time, and lower incidence of pressure ulcers and complications (all P <0.05). The VAS score of the control group (2.83 ± 0.56) was higher than that in the experimental group ((1.28 ± 0.57) all P <0.05). Postoperative thoracolumbar vertebral incision and internal fixation surgery for patients with postural nursing intervention can not only improve the satisfaction rate of nursing, reduce the occurrence of complications, shorten the length of hospitalization, but also reduce the incidence of intraoperative pressure ulcers.