Nursing measures for breast cancer

After breast cancer surgery, postoperative care needs to pay attention to the patient's drainage tube, pay attention to proper exercise of the affected limbs, pay attention to preventing bedsores, and pay attention to preventing lower limb venous thrombosis. After surgery, the patient should pay attention to the drainage of the drainage tube and pay attention to proper exercise of the affected upper limb. After breast cancer surgery, family members should perform postoperative rehabilitation functional exercises as soon as possible.

Assist and urge patients to protect the skin of edematous limbs, avoid scratching it, and avoid lifting heavy objects with edematous limbs.

Generally, you can start doing forearm and elbow flexion and extension exercises and grasping movements on the first or second day after surgery, 10 times each time, about 56 times a day.

On the third day after surgery, you can try to use the healthy upper limb to help the operated upper limb to do the forward lifting movement, so that the affected limb is raised to the same level as the head, 34 times each time, about 35 times a day.

On the fourth day after surgery, you can hold the thumb of the affected limb with your healthy hand to help lift the affected limb upward until it is above the head, 34 times a day.

On the fifth day after surgery, you can use your healthy hand to lift the affected elbow slowly forward and upward, above your head, and straighten it as much as possible. Do this 23 times each time, 24 times a day.

On the sixth day after the operation, you can use the fingers of the affected limb to slide slowly upwards along the wall, gradually raising the height, 23 times each time, 34 times a day.

On the seventh and eighth days after surgery, have the affected hand pass over the top of the head and touch the contralateral ear, 23 times each time, 34 times a day.

From the ninth day after surgery, you can use the shoulder joint as the axis to do rotational activities with the affected limb. Do this 23 times each time, 34 times a day. On the tenth day after surgery, you can try to lift objects above your head with the affected limb, 23 times each time, 23 times a day.

After the tenth day after the operation, you can gradually do various exercises such as upper limb lifting, rotation, and abduction according to your physical strength and wound healing.

Of course, when exercising after surgery, breast cancer patients should exercise step by step according to their actual conditions, such as their condition, age, physical strength, wound healing, etc. They should not rush or avoid exercising after surgery.