Objective To classify the nursing needs of patients undergoing ophthalmic day surgery, to understand the characteristics and needs of different patient groups, and propose specific nursing strategies to further improve the nursing quality of the ophthalmic day wards. Methods A retrospective review was conducted on all archived electronic medical records of patients in the Ophthalmology Day Ward of Beijing Tongren Hospital affiliated to the Capital Medical University from January to September 2023. Statistical description and cluster analysis were used to analyze and cluster all data. Results A total of 52049 patients were included, with an average age of (57.11±19.61) years. The number of nursing items required was 0 for 3104 patients (5.96%), 1 for 9158 patients (17.59%), 2 for 25428 patients (48.85%), 3 for 8812 patients (16.93%), 4 for 5442 patients (10.46%), and 5-11 for 105 patients (0.20%). The number of patients’ comorbidities was 0 for 38653 patients (74.26%), 1 for 10896 patients (20.93%), 2 for 2449 patients (4.71%), and 3-11 for 51 patients (0.10%). Using the number of comorbidities, total required nursing care items, and age as clustering variables, the 52049 patients were divided into 3 groups: low nursing demand group with 11817 patients (22.70%), medium nursing demand group with 24466 patients (47.01%), and high nursing demand group with 15766 patients (30.29%). The results showed that both patient age and the number of comorbidities were closely related to the number of nursing care items needed. Conclusion Classifying and analyzing the nursing needs of patients undergoing ophthalmic day surgery can help understand the needs of different categories of patients, improve nursing strategies specifically, provide support for further improving the accuracy and quality of ophthalmic day care services, and provide reference for clinical nursing work.
ObjectiveTo analyze the consistency of diagnostic results using simple and comprehensive reading methods on stereoscopic color fundus photographs of diabetic retinopathy (DR) with diabetic macular edema (DME).
Methods450 sets of 7-field stereoscopic color fundus photographs of DR DME were compared to standard fundus photographs of early treatment and DR study group. The pictures were read by two groups of reader with similar experience. Two strategies were used to make the judgments, including simple reading which based on the color fundus photographs only, and comprehensive reading which based on color fundus photographs, fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT). 15 parameters were scored, including micro-aneurysms (MA), intra-retinal hemorrhage (IRH), hard exudates (HE), cotton wood spot (CW), intra-retinal microvascular abnormalities (IRMA), neovascularization on optic disc (NVD), neovascularization elsewhere (NVE), optic fiber proliferation (FPD), fiber proliferation elsewhere (FPE), pre-retinal hemorrhage (PRH), vitreous hemorrhage (VH), retinal elevation (RE), retinal detachment of central macular (RDC), venous beading (VB), Venous leak (VL). The reliability was evaluated using weighted κ(κw) statistic values. According to Fleiss statistical theory, κw≥0.75, consistency is excellent; 0.60≤κw < 0.75, consistency is good; 0.40≤κw < 0.60, consistency is general; κw < 0.40, consistency is poor.
ResultsThe κw values of these 15 parameters were 0.22-1.00, 0.28-1.00 for the simple reading and comprehensive reading respectively. For simple reading, the consistency was poor for 8 parameters (MA, NVD, NVE, FPE, PRH, IRMA, VB, VL), general for 3 parameters (CW, FPD, VH), good for 2 parameters (IRH, HE) and excellent for 2 parameters (RE, RDC). For comprehensive reading, the consistency was poor for 2 parameters (NVE, VB), general for 6 parameters (MA, IRH, CW, FPE, IRMA, VL), good for 2 parameters (NVD, HE), excellent for 5 parameters (FPE, PRH, VH, RE, RDC).
ConclusionThe comprehensive reading has higher consistency to judge the abnormality parameters of the fundus photographs of DR with DME.
Objective
To explore the effect of the feed-forward control on safety nursing of ophthalmologic day surgery patients under general anesthesia.
Methods
A total of 623 ophthalmologic day surgery patients under general anesthesia were retrospectively selected into the control group, who adapted the routine nursing in the Ophthalmic Day Surgery Center from January to December 2015; a total of 1 210 ophthalmologic day surgery patients under general anesthesia were retrospectively selected into the observation group, who received the feed-forward control of nursing safety management on the basis of routine nursing care from January to December 2016. The incidence rate of the adverse events and potential safety hazards and satisfaction rate were compared between the two groups.
Results
The incidence rate of the adverse events and potential safety hazards in the observation group (0.83%, 10/1 210) was lower than that in the control group (3.37%, 21/623), the satisfaction rate in the observation group (98.67%) was higher than that in the control group (97.11%), and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.05).
Conclusion
The application of feed-forward control in the safety care of patients during the ophthalmologic day surgery under general anesthesia can effectively reduce the incidence of adverse events and potential safety hazards, and ensure the safety of medical care.
The improvement of diagnostic levels for fundus diseases depend on the advancements of fundus imaging technology. Different fundus imaging technologies allow doctors to inspect ocular fundus from different aspects such as morphological or functional changes of retina. As a basic fundus examination method, optical coherence tomography provides highresolution and crosssectional retinal images coupled with noninvasive advantages. Fully understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each fundus imaging technique, appropriate choosing one or combining several imaging techniques, and optimizing diagnostic procedures for each fundus disease are crucial steps to improve our diagnostic levels of ocular fundus diseases.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has developed from time-doma in into Fourier-domain OCT (FD-OCT) which indicates clearer details and higher resolution of images. FD-OCT can indicate the structure and pathological changes of each retinal layer, and reveal the retinal external limiting membranes and changes of inner- and outer-segment of visual cells by 3D solid reconstruction. FD-OCT not only provide detailed information of the images for the clinical diagnosis, but also help us investigting the characteristics and pthological mechanisms of ocular fundus diseases, which lead us to a new era of technology of observation on ocualr fundus diseases. In the application, we should pay attention to the significance of different colors of OCT images, and focus on the cohenrence of the position in the image acquistion during the follow-up period. Dynamic observation on the lesions by FD-OCT and aggregated anaylsis of resutls of several imageological examination would be the development direction of imageological examination of ocular fundus diseases.
With the development of ophthalmic optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA), including the improving of light source, resolution, scanning depth and upgrade of analysis softwares, they can more accurately display the structure of retinal layers and give accurate quantitative measurement. In neuro-ophthalmic diseases, the OCT indicators (the thickness of retinal nerve fiber layer around optic disc and plexus layer in macular gangle cells) and OCTA indicators (the blood flow density of capillaries around optic disc, superficial and deep capillaries in macular area, and the area of foveal avascualr zone) had special changes. It has important value in the differential diagnosis of central nervous system diseases and retinal diseases with visual dysfunction as the first symptom, the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of neuro-ophthalmic disease, the evaluation of progression of neurodegenerative diseases. Neuro-ophthamologists should pay more attention to the exploration and application of OCT and OCTA in the field of neuro-ophthalmology.
