Nursing of PVP and PKP in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures

Abstract

Objective To explore the effect and reasonable nursing methods of percutancous vertebroplasty (PVP) and percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Methods Totally 156 patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures were randomly selected in the third hospital of Hebei Medical University from December 2004 to December 2010.According to the surgical methods,all the patients were divided into two groups:PVP group ( n =89) and PKP group ( n =67 ).The hospital stay,hospitahzation costs,bed time,postoperative recovery time,VAS scores before and after treatment,cement leakage rate of both PVP group and PKP group were analyzed.Results Group PVP:hospital stay (4.85 ±0.81)d,bedtime (1.48 ±0.68)d,postoperative recovery time (2.36 ±0.84)d,VAS scores after treatment (2.19 ± 0.77) ; Group PKP:hospital stay (4.71 ± 0.77 ) d,bed time ( 1.53 ± 0.52) d,postoperative recovery time (2.40 ±0.64)d,VAS scores after treatment (2.26 ±0.63 ).There were no significant differences in the aspects of the hospital stay,bed time,postoperative recovery time,VAS scores after treatment between PVP group and PKP group (t =0.702,0.355,0.491,0.348,respectively; P ＞0.05).Group PVP:hospitalization costs (1.30 ±0.19) ten thousand yuan; Group PKP:hospitalization costs (4.79 ±0.22) ten thousand yuan,there was significant difference in the hospitalization costs(t =79.163,P＜0.01).There was significant difference in the aspects of cement leakage rate between PVP group and PKP group (30.34％ vs 13.43％ ;x2 =6.153 1,P＜0.05).Conclusions Both PVP and PKP can effectively ease the pain in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures.Hospitalization costs is lower in PVP group than that in PKP group.However,cement leakage rate is higher. Key words: Osteoporosis; Vertebroplasty; Fractures,compreasion