Research strengths and limitations
coronary artery disease
VASCULAR DISEASE, CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE, COMPLICATIONS
In Chinese studies, studies on improving nurses’ work efficiency before and after PCI are rarely found in the literature, and there are even fewer nursing processes solely for CTO patients. Starting from the nurses themselves, this study is the first to apply the checklist to patient nursing for CTO interventional procedures to explore effective working methods that can reduce the nursing staff’s preoperative preparation time and reduce nursing errors. The main limitation of this study is that it was a single-center experiment, which reduces generalizability. The selected patients were patients with standard conditions of CTO interventional operation, and the excluded patients were not collected. It is stated that the clinical nurses using the checklist recorded the amount of time they spent on preoperative preparation of patients. There is therefore the potential for bias to be introduced, as the nurses were evaluating their own practice. Due to limitations in the research design, this study did not employ a fully random method, which may introduce certain selection bias.CTO is a complex vascular disease, and studies have shown that nursing intervention in the interventional treatment of chronic completely occluded coronary artery disease can not only improve the success rate of surgery, but also reduce complications, making patients satisfied, which is consistent with the nursing intervention results used in this study. A systematic review [