The clinical effect of nursing intervention in the operating room on the prevention of orthopedic wound infections.

OBJECTIVE To study the preventive effect of operating room nursing intervention on surgical incision infections in elderly patients undergoing orthopedic surgery. METHODS Altogether, 128 orthopedic patients were divided into an observation group and a control group according to the nursing method each patient underwent, with 64 patients in each group. RESULTS The grade A incision healing rate in the observation group was significantly higher than the rate in the control group (P<0.01). The eating and getting out of bed times, and the lengths of the hospital stays in the observation group were significantly shorter than the corresponding times in the control group (P<0.01). The incidences of postoperative wound infections in the observation group (0 cases) was significantly lower than the incidences in the control group (14 cases, accounting for 21.88%), and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). After the nursing, the prognoses and quality of life scores of the patients in the observation group were better than they were in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.01). Our investigation indicated that, after the treatment, the overall patient satisfaction rate in the observation group (98.44%) was significantly higher than the patient satisfaction rate in the control group (84.38%), and the difference was statistically significant (χ2=27.349, P=0.000). CONCLUSION Operating room nursing intervention can effectively prevent postoperative wound infections and promote incision healing, so it is worthy of application.