ABSTRACT
Objective To design an adjustable frame for four limbs disinfection, and applied it to clinic, to prevent skin damage of eatagmatic limb due to heighten the limb for the preoperative disin-fection.Methods 180 patients who need to heighten limb for diaplasis were divided into the observation group and the control group averagely according to the sequence of operation time.Patients in the observa-tion group were heighten limbs by using the adjustable frame, while the control group were heighten limbs onto the fluid frame by traditional methods.Skin lesions, the contamination of the limb and the time for disinfection were observed.Results Skin lesions of the observation group and the control group were 2% and 20%, re-spectively,the difference was statistically significant.There was no case in the observation group was contami-nated and 16 cases were contaminated in the control group, the difference was statistically significant.The aver-age time for disinfection in the observation group was (17.6 ± 2.4)minutes, in the control group,(21.3 ± 3.2) minutes, the difference was also statistically significant.Conclusions Using the adjustable frame for limbs disinfection can reduce the skin damage, shorten the disinfection time and improve work efficiency.