Trajectories of Nursing Care During the Critical and Intensive Phases After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: A Retrospective Observational Study.
Yewon Lee, Sumi Sung
PMID 41795158WHAT IT FOUND
After CABG surgery, nursing documentation peaked early for lung, drain and skin care, then rose for wound, infection and pain management by day 5.
It shows what nurses recorded, not patient outcomes.
Key findings
01Lung care, drain care and pain management were the dominant postoperative nursing categories, with 18,965, 11,310 and 11,268 statements.
02On postoperative day 1, lung care, skin integrity care and comprehensive physiological status evaluation each exceeded 2000 records.
03Pain management, surgical wound care and infection assessment peaked on postoperative day 5.
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What it does not show
Records came from one tertiary hospital and 122 patients, so patterns may not apply elsewhere. Patients admitted less than 2 days before surgery or discharged within 7 days were excluded, which may bias the sample. Categorising nursing statements may oversimplify complex care and miss less frequently documented tasks. The study did not perform a priori sample size calculation or power analysis.
Declared interests
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Republic of Korea government (Ministry of Science and Information and Communication Technology; RS-2024-00354718) and the research grant of Chungbuk National University in 2024. The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that these nursing activities improved CABG recovery. The study counted what nurses recorded in one hospital and did not compare groups or measure patient outcomes.