Study on the effect of optimizing nursing process in emergency PCI on the reduction of radiation received by interventional nurses

Objective To investigate the effect of optimizing nursing process in emergency PCI on the reduction of radiation received by interventional nurses. Methods A total of 100 cases of acute myocardial infarction patients who need emergency PCI in First Affiliated Hospital of University of South China were selected for the study, with the first 50 cases as the control group using conventional nursing process and the other 50 cases as the optimization group using the optimal nursing process in the test. Two radiation monitoring methods were used at the same time to measure, record and analyze the radiation dose to the intervention nurses in the two groups. Results The differences in radiation doses to nurses between the two groups were statistically significant in the single operation of intracoronary drug configuration, non-intracoronary drug configuration, intravenous injection, patient care, emergency material unpacking, and contrast agent replacement (Z=-5.171, -3.774, -7.208, -2.454, -4.516, -3.819, P 0.05). The difference in radiation doses to nurses between the two groups during the entire operation was statistically significant (Z=-6.105, P<0.05). Conclusions The optimized nursing process helps to reduce the radiation received by interventional nurses in emergency PCI. Key words: Chest pain center; Nursing process; Radiation exposure; Coronary stent; Interventional nurse