To investigate the effect of respiratory function training method on postoperative patients with esophageal hiatal hernia repair.

Patients were selected from December 2016 to December 2017. All the 50 patients were diagnosed with hiatal hernia and underwent surgical treatment and were randomly divided into training group and control group. Subjects in the control group were given routine nursing care while subjects in the training group had additionally pre-operative and postoperative respiratory function training guidance. And the effect of postoperative recovery was evaluated by the status of pulmonary function, oxyhemoglobin saturation and postoperative hospitalization days.

There was no significant difference between the two groups when subjectively evaluated the respiratory function on the 5th day after operation. The average blood oxygen saturation of training group on both 2rd day and 5th day after surgery was higher than that in the control group, while the difference of later indicator was significant (P<0.05). Postoperative pulmonary infection rate was slightly higher in the control group, but there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). The total postoperative hospitalization stay in the training group was significantly shorter than that in the control group.

Our findings suggest that perioperative training of respiratory function has obvious effect on improving respiratory function and blood oxygen saturation of patients with esophageal hiatal hernia surgery and can improve the postoperative rehabilitation as well.