Nursing Effect of Zinc Oxide Nanoantibacterial Materials after Adrenalectomy

Abstract

Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (RLA) is widely used for adrenal tumors, cancer, cortical hyperplasia, etc. Therefore, how to care for patients after surgery is a necessary means to speed up the rapid healing of surgical wounds and reduce the incidence of related complications. To solve the problem in traditional wound treatment, antibacterial dressings are used, and most of the auxiliary materials need to be replaced frequently, or there is serious adhesion to the wound, which causes secondary wound infection. The methods used to study in this work report a new long-acting antibacterial and breathable wound dressing based on nanoscale zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) in the care of adrenalectomy; the clinical effects of ZnO NP-based antibacterial dressings were systematically evaluated in terms of patients’ wound healing rate (%), infection rate (%), healing time (d), and the number of dressing changes. The results revealed that the wound healing rate of patients with ZnO NP-based antibacterial dressing was as high as 16.67% and the incidence of adverse reactions was only 26.19%, which was 40.48% lower than traditional dressings. Such promising antibacterial dressings are expected to be greatly used in the medical field in the future.