Intraoperative Experience of Poor Coordination Elderly Patients During Cataract Surgery Under Surface Anesthesia:A Qualitative Study
Objective To comprehend the genuine feelings of elderly patients with poor cooperation during cataract surgery under surface anesthesia and to provide references for strategies to enhance the intraopera-tive collaboration of these patients.Methods From September 2022 to June 2023,17 elderly patients dem-onstrating poor coordination in cataract surgery under surface anesthesia in the department of ophthalmol-ogy in a tertiary A hospital were selected as the subjects.Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the phenomenological research approach,and the data were sorted and analyzed using the Colaizzi 7-step analysis method.Results 3 themes are summarized:deficiency in knowledge regarding cataract surgery;negative psychological experiences(unfamiliarity with the surgical environment,negative psychology in-duced by the operation,concern about the prognosis of the operation);photophobia and long fixation dura-tion during the operation.Conclusions To improve the intraoperative cooperation of elderly patients under-going cataract surgery,nursing staff should enhance health education and science popularization,compre-hensively raise patients'awareness of the disease,effectively relieve their tension and psychological bur-den,and organize preoperative simulation training to enhance intraoperative coordination.
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