Survey on prevention of deep venous thrombosis among patients under arthroplasy

VernacularTitle:下肢关节置换病人深静脉血栓预防的现状调查
Author: Kun LI ¹ ; Xue-Hong YANG ; Yue-Lou YANG ; Hua-Qing XU ; Fei-Ying TAN ; Jie CHEN
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1. 510089,广州,中山大学附属第一医院康复医学科
Keywords: Arthroplasy; Deep venous thrombosis; Prevention
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2010;16(26):3149-3151
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To investigate the status of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) prevention among patients under arthroplasy, and to evaluate the related knowledge level of nurses.Methods 39 nurse specialists from 39 hospitals were investigated by questionnaires in order to acquaint the status of DVT prevention among patients under arthroplasy and to find out the nurses' level on related knowledge.Results 61.5% had no the guideline of DVT, and also didn't of patients under arthroplasy among the 39 hospitals which the nurses belonged to; Only 17.9% had gradual compression stocking, 20.5% had sequential compression devices.69.2% nurses didn't get correlative training about DVT.71.8% nurses prevented DVT according to their experience, and 28.2% according to doctor' s order.The average score of their knowledge test about DVT was only 40.Conclusions The hospitals which were investigated do not pay enough attention to the prevention of DVT , do not evaluate the risk of DVT, and the correlative trainings among nurses are not enough, Nurses' knowledge levels about DVT are low.