Evidence-based nursing for a pin site nursing method among patients with bone pin surgery / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To formulate an evidence-based nursing scheme of a pin site nursing method to reduce the incidence of pin site infection among patients with bone pin surgery. Methods Under the principle of PICO, the issue was put forward aiming directly at patient′s clinical manifestations. By some database retrieval and evaluate the retrieval of literature evidence, the optimal evidence will be applied to the patients and the curative effect were observed. Results A total of 1 systematic review, 1 cohort study and 9 randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were included. According to the available evidence mentioned herein and patient′s conditions, they developed a new pin site nursing method and applied to patients. Seven days later, the two pin sites with infection symptoms obviously improved, with decreasing secretion, without skin redness and pain, and the temperature of skin was normal. The other six pin sites without infection did not occur infection. Conclusions The patients with pin sites using based iodine disinfection and sterile gauze strip winding better than the conventional alcohol drop pin site in reducing infection.