Background: After receiving percutaneous coronary interventions, hematoma is one of the most common vascular complications due to the removal of radial artery. Once happened, there will have a negative impact on the quality of care. The incidence rate of hematoma is up to 20.09% without proper treatment.
Purposes: Applying evidence-based clinical care guidelines to effectively assist the medical team to reduce the occurrence rate of hematoma after the removal of radial artery catheter.
Methods and Materials: Designing an evidence-based clinical care guidelines based on empirical literature searching and the developed solutions include: regular on-the-job training course, regular TR band hemostasis care course and case study, formulating standard procedures of TR band, formulating a new check list and monitoring system for post-percutaneous coronary intervention.
Results and Discussion: After applying the developed guidelines, the occurrence rate of hematoma decreased from 20.09% to 9.3%. As for after-removal of radial artery catheters knowledge, nurses’ cognitive correctness rate increased from 58.66% to 96.66%. The accuracy rate of hemostasis treatment increased from 57.64% to 99.21%.
Conclusion: After implementing the project, not only the occurrence of hematoma after removal of radial artery catheter was reduced but also the satisfaction degree about the comfortability was significantly increased. The result indicates that this guideline can be applied in the future to benefit more patients with cardiovascular disease.