To explore the impact of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) nursing on joint function, mental state, and treatment compliance of patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Convenience sampling was used to retrospectively select 200 patients with knee osteoarthritis who underwent knee arthroplasty in the Department of Orthopedics, Qingyang People's Hospital, Gansu Province from October 2016 to October 2019. Patients were randomly divided into the observation group and the control group, with 100 cases in each group. The control group carried out conventional nursing, while the observation group implemented ERAS nursing. We compared the scores of the Self-rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) , the Self-rating Depression Scale (SDS) , the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Hospital for Special Surgery Knee Score (HSS) before and after the intervention, and compared the treatment compliance of the two groups of patients.

The scores of SAS, SDS, and VAS of the observation group after intervention were (51.13±3.17) , (39.34±3.94) , (2.34±0.68) , respectively, which were lower than those of the control group (55.78±3.82) , (44.41±4.17) , (3.06±0.87) , the differences were statistically significant (P<0.01) . All dimension scores in the HSS of the observation group were higher than those of the control group after intervention, and the differences were statistically significant (P<0.01) . The treatment compliance of patients in the observation group was higher than that in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.01) .

The perioperative application of ERAS nursing during knee replacement surgery can improve the patient's mental state and the patient's coordination with treatment and nursing, which is worthy of clinical application.

Arthroplasty, replacement, knee; Nursing; Enhanced recovery after surgery; Joint function; Mental state; Compliance