title: The effect and clinical application of homemade tracheotomy incision nursing pads.
abstract: To investigate the effect and clinical application of the homemade tracheotomy incision nursing pads. 83 patients suffering tracheotomy were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group was treated with the homemade tracheotomy incision nursing pads, and the control group was treated with the traditional tracheotomy nursing pads. Subsequently, the number of nursing pads used in 2 weeks, tracheotomy incision bacterial colonies and the comfort of patient between the two groups of pads was compared. The number of nursing pads used by the experimental group was smaller than the control group, and the tracheotomy incision bacterial colonies in the experimental group were fewer than the control group (P < 0.01). However, the differences observed for the skin irritation and gas permeability between the two groups were not statistically significant (P > 0.05). Thus, the results show that the effect of homemade tracheotomy incision nursing pads is greater compared to the traditional nursing pads.
authors.affiliation: First Affiliated Hospital of Yangtze University, Jingzhou City, HuBei Province, 434000, People's Republic of China, yaoyc@126.com.
authors.forename: Yachun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Jiajun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D065966:Absorption, Physicochemical; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001458:Bandages; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009729:Nursing; D014140:Tracheotomy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry; D014945:Wound Healing; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D014867:Water