Objective To analyze the influence of Wiltse approach and conventional transmuscular approach on the mul?tifidus muscle by imageology, histology and electrophysiology assessment following short?segment pedicle fixation on thoracolum?bar fractures. Methods 76 patients with thoracolumbar fractures without neurological deficits who had undergone short?segment pedicle fixation between June 2010 and August 2012. Wiltse approach 36 cases, conventional transmuscular approach 40 cases. The perioperative parameters, Visual Analogue Scale scores (VAS), and radiologic parameters, esp the imageology, histology and electrophysiology changes of multifidus muscle were compared. Results 20 cases were fellowed up over 1 year in the Wiltse ap?proach group (20/36, 56%). 25 cases were fellowed up over 1 year in the conventional transmuscular approach group (25/40, 62.5%). No significant differences were found in terms of gender, age, fracture type, injured segment and follow?up period. Till the last follow?up, all patients with vertebral fractures were healed. No loosening or breaking of internal fixation was observed. Com?pared to the conventional transmuscular approach, the Wiltse approach was significantly advantageous in terms of operation time, the amount of bleeding, hospital stays and VAS scores after the surgery but the length of incision, besides, the Wiltse approach group had less incidence of multifidus atrophy and less fatty infiltration, and in conventional transmuscular approach group electro?myography demonstrated that the multifidus muscles median frequency values and average amplitude value were significantly low?er than Wiltse approach group. Conclusion The Wiltse approach for thoracolumbar fractures, retaining the posterior ligament complex, is an effective and minimally invasive treatment, with less trauma, less bleeding, less operation time, the advantages of re?liable clinical results. Especially less incidence of multifidus atrophy and less fatty infiltration.

Objective:To explore the application status and research hotspots of robotic surgery system in surgical nursing based on literature analysis.Methods:Relevant literature on the application with robotic surgical nursing as the subject word was retrieved from CNKI,Wanfang Data,and VIP Chinese website from 2013 to 2022.CiteSpace software was used to extract information on authors,research institutions,and keywords,the cooperative relationships and research hotspots in this field were discussed and analyzed.Results:A total of 875 Chinese articles published between 2013 and 2022 were retrieved,and 454 articles were finally included in the analysis after deduplication screening.From 2013 to 2022,the annual number of papers published in robotic surgical nursing increased year by year,decreased slightly in 2019,and increased rapidly from 2021 to 2022,with 70 and 90 papers,respectively.The top 10 keywords with highest to lowest frequency were nursing,robotics,nursing cooperation,surgical cooperation,laparoscopy,perioperative,complications,prostate cancer,surgical nursing care and surgery.The degree of collaboration among different research institutions and authors was weak.Research hotspots included nursing cooperation and perioperative complication care.The research mainly focused on nursing experience sharing and nursing model discussion,while there were fewer studies on nursing quality standards,training models and relevant nursing interventions.Conclusion:Analysis of the application status and research hotspots of surgical nursing of robotic surgical system based on CiteSpace visualization software,can understand the research hotspots and trends of robotic surgery in the field of nursing by various research institutions and literature authors in China,and provide reference for the research direction of robotic surgery nursing.