Preventive value of systematic nursing for lower limb deep venous thrombosis after obstetrics and gynaecology surgery

Abstract

Objective: To clarify the impact of systematic nursing on preventing lower limb deep venous thrombosis after obstetrics
and gynaecology surgery.
Method: The study was conducted at the Nanjing Women and Children's Healthcare Hospital, Nanjing, China, from
November 2020 to November 2022, and comprised women inpatients who had undergone caesarean section. The subjects
were randomised into control group CG and observation group OG. CG subjects underwent conventional nursing, while
OG subjects received systematic nursing intervention, including preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative nursing.
Negative emotions, nursing satisfaction, complication incidence and lower limb status were compared between the groups.
Data was analysed using SPSS 27.
Results: Of the 100 subjects, 50(50%) women were in CG group with mean age 29.41±1.34 years, while 50(50%) were in
OG group with mean age 29.55±1.35 years. Post-intervention, negative emotion scores were lower, nursing satisfaction
scores were higher, the incidences of lower limb deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism were fewer, and the
scores of lower limb status were lower in OG group compared to CG (p<0.05).
Conclusion: The application of systematic nursing intervention in obstetrics and gynaecology patients undergoing surgery
could effectively prevent lower limb deep venous thrombosis, reduce the incidence of pulmonary embolism, improve
patients’ lower limb status and negative emotions, and increase satisfaction level with nursing.
Keywords: Lower limb, Deep venous thrombosis, Obstetrics and gynaecology, Systematic nursing.