What are the precautions for prostate cancer? Postoperative care methods for prostate cancer patients

There are some precautions for prostate cancer patients both before and after surgery. Before surgery, you should pay attention to the precautions of related examination items, and after surgery, you should pay attention to various nursing precautions. All these aspects are related to the health of the patient, and the patient must pay attention. Below, the editor will bring you the specific content of the precautions.

1. Before radical prostatectomy

1. Give semi-liquid food and oral intestinal antibiotics 3 days before the operation, change to liquid food 1 day before the operation, and perform cleansing enema before the operation to prevent intestinal damage during the operation from causing pelvic infection. Complete physical examinations.

2. Understand the symptoms of each system of the patient and actively treat patients with heart, lung, and kidney diseases.

3. For those with indwelling urinary catheters, they should maintain normal urination and pay attention to the hygiene of the urethral opening to prevent postoperative retrograde infection.

2. After Radical Prostatectomy

1. Closely observe changes in the patient's vital signs, provide ECG care, and continue low-flow oxygen inhalation.

2. Use an anti-reflux drainage bag, connect various flow tubes, mark them respectively, fix them well, do not fold or twist them, squeeze the drainage tube regularly to keep the drainage unobstructed, closely observe the properties and drainage volume of the drainage fluid, and notify the doctor in time if any abnormality is found and take appropriate measures.

3. Help the patient to turn over, tap his back, assist in expectoration, and prevent lung infection; give nebulizer inhalation, keep the respiratory tract normal, and ask the patient to take more deep breaths to prevent lung complications.

4. Accompanying personnel should guide patients to perform leg flexion and extension exercises, do more lower limb massages, and assist in turning over; patients with constipation should use laxatives or anal lubricants under the guidance of a doctor, and advise patients not to exert force when defecating to prevent pulmonary embolism and other complications.

Surgery is currently the most ideal treatment for prostate cancer, and the precautions introduced above are all to increase the success rate of surgery, help patients cure prostate cancer as soon as possible, and give themselves a healthy body. Here, the editor wishes everyone a speedy recovery!