To observe the effect of compression device on postoperative quality of life and complications of patients undergoing inguinal hernia surgery.

A total of 80 patients undergoing inguinal hernia day surgery in Beijing Chaoyang Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University were observed and analyzed, including 53 patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery and 27 patients undergoing open surgery. All patients were pressurized with a compression device to the operation area after surgery. Postoperative pain score, Carolinas Comfort Scale (CCS) and seroma were analyzed.

The CCS scores of the laparoscopic group and the open group were (25.88±5.77) and (27.32±6.23) points at 1 week after surgery, respectively, and there was no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). The pain scores before the use of compression device were (5.12±1.41) points in the open group and (4.53±1.62) points in the laparoscopic group, the pain scores of the two groups on the day using the compression device were (3.54±0.67) and (3.55±0.72) points, respectively, and the pain scores of the two groups on the 7 days after the operation were (1.19±0.21) and (1.09±0.19) points, respectively, and there was no significant difference between the two groups (P>0.05). The use of compression devices on the day of surgery could improve the pain degree of patients. The overall satisfaction of the evaluation of postoperative compression devices was 90.56% and 85.19% in the two groups, respectively, with no significant statistical difference (P>0.05). There was no significant difference in the incidence of seroma between the two groups (P>0.05).

Compression device can improve the postoperative pain of patients with inguinal hernia and improve the postoperative quality of life, the overall satisfaction of patients was high, and it can play a certain role in the prevention of symptomatic seroma.