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Operative Positioning and Intraoperative-Acquired Pressure Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Xin Xu1, Miao Miao, Guirong Shi
1At the Xinhua Hospital Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, Xin Xu, MSN, is Clinical Nurse. Miao Miao, MSN, is Graduate, Shanghai Jiaotong University. Also at Xinhua Hospital, Guirong Shi, MSN, is Clinic Nurse; Peipei Zhang, BS, is Nursing Supervisor of the Emergency Operating Room; Ping Liu, MSN, is Associate Director of the Nursing Department RN; Bing Zhao, MSN, is Anesthetist Nurse; and Liping Jiang, PhD, is Professor and Chief Nursing Officer. Acknowledgments: The authors thank Chengnan Guo from the School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, who provided statistical guidance and support for this study. The authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article. Submitted January 5, 2023; accepted in revised form March 14, 2023.
Objective:
To comprehensively assess the association between operative positioning with intraoperative-acquired pressure injury (IAPI) development.
Methods:
This retrospective cohort study included 455 patients who underwent surgery between October 2020 and January 2021. The authors grouped patients by operative positioning into the prone position and nonprone position groups. They used propensity-score matching at a 1:2 ratio to control for preoperative confounders, applied multiple logistic regression models to analyze the effects between positioning and IAPI, and assessed interactions of positioning and intraoperative factors on IAPI.
Results:
The final enrollment was 92 cases in the prone position group and 181 in the nonprone position group. Multivariable logistic analysis suggested that the prone position had a 2.92 times higher risk of IAPI than the nonprone position (odds ratio, 2.92; 95% CI, 1.13-7.57; P = .026). Subgroup analysis showed a significant multiplicative interaction between positioning and foam dressing on IAPI (P < .05), which was not observed in other intraoperative factors (P > .05).
Conclusions:
This study provides evidence that prone operative positioning can increase IAPI risk. Patients in the prone position may particularly benefit from using dressings in Chinese populations. Further large-sample longitudinal studies are required to confirm these findings.
