Determination of Incidence and Risk Factors of Perioperative Pressure Injury in Surgical Patients: A Descriptive, Prospective, and Comparative Study

Objective: This study aimed to determine the incidence and risk factors of perioperative pressure injury (PI) in surgical patients. Material Methods: descriptive, prospective, comparative was conducted with 101 patients who underwent general surgery a training research hospital İstanbul between September 2018 June 2019. Data were collected using 'Patient Form,' 'Braden Scale,' 'International Pressure Injury Classification System.' analyzed parametric nonparametric tests SPSS package program. The statistical significance level taken as p<0.05. necessary institutional ethics committee permission obtained conduct study. Results: In this study, it observed that PI 12.9% (13/101) patients, most developed after pancreaticoduodenectomy (38.5%). Preoperative hemoglobin serum albumin levels, time longer than 185 minutes, intraoperative hypotensive episodes found be determinant development (p<0.01). Conclusion: Surgical nurses should carefully evaluate individual surgery-related implement evidence-based interventions prevention injuries.