Abstract
Objective: The article aims to explore the effect of continuous skin temperature monitoring on nursing for flap transplantation for repairing hand skin soft tissue defect. Methods: We selected 70 patients who received flap transplantation for hand skin soft tissue defect repair from April 2016 to April 2018 in a hospital and averagely randomized them into control group and observation group. Both groups were given routine nursing and the observation group also received continuous skin temperature monitoring. The incidence of vascular crisis, length of stay and duration of wound healing were compared between the two groups. Results: The incidence of vascular crisis, length of stay and duration of wound healing of the observation group were significantly lower than those of the control group (P<0.05). Conclusions: Continuous skin temperature monitoring has a great effect on the nursing for patients who received flap transplantation for hand skin defect repair. It can help detect circulatory crisis earlier so that medical staff can give intervention earlier, which can effectively reduce occurrence of complications of vascular crisis and thus is worth clinical application.
Highlights
In recent years, with the development of the society, various traffic accidents and accidental injuries cause an increase in the occurrence of hand injury which may lead to skin soft tissue defect or even bone exposure, making clinic treatment more difficult [1]
The effectiveness and sensitivity of the skin thermometer to monitor the skin temperature are very high, and application of skin temperature monitoring to the skin flap repairing skin soft tissue defects of the hand is of significant effect [3]
It should be gentle to observe the Besides routine nursing care for flap transplantation, continuous skin temperature was given to the observation group, including the following measures: (1) A company's MH-70N skin temperature monitor was used
Summary
With the development of the society, various traffic accidents and accidental injuries cause an increase in the occurrence of hand injury which may lead to skin soft tissue defect or even bone exposure, making clinic treatment more difficult [1]. Application of flap in repairing hand skin soft tissue defect can effectively improve the shape of the damaged skin with high flap survival rate and less postoperative complications. It is the major method to repair the skin soft tissue defects of the limbs [2]. The effectiveness and sensitivity of the skin thermometer to monitor the skin temperature are very high, and application of skin temperature monitoring to the skin flap repairing skin soft tissue defects of the hand is of significant effect [3]. We adopted continuous skin temperature monitoring in nursing patients who had flap transplantation to repair skin soft tissue defect of hand, which brought satisfactory results.
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