How to care for lung cancer patients after surgery? Two aspects of care should be done after lung cancer surgery

Because postoperative nursing work is related to the postoperative effect, it has a great relationship with the recovery of patients after lung cancer surgery. Therefore, it is very important for us to understand the postoperative nursing methods for lung cancer. Let us take a good look at how to do postoperative nursing work for lung cancer.

The postoperative care methods for lung cancer are as follows:

1. Smoking ban and regular check-up: After lung cancer surgery, patients should be prohibited from smoking to avoid recurrence of lung cancer. Patients with decreased lung function should be guided to gradually increase their exercise. Squamous cell lung cancer is prone to local invasion and recurrence in the chest cavity after surgery. Precautions for nursing after lung cancer surgery: Always pay attention to whether the patient has fever, severe cough, blood in sputum, shortness of breath, chest pain, headache, vision changes, liver pain, bone pain, supraclavicular lymph node enlargement, liver enlargement, etc. If the above symptoms are found, go to the hospital for treatment in time. At the same time, patients should go to the hospital regularly for chest examinations and keep fresh sputum to check for cancer cells.

2. Nutritional support methods: In the first few days after lung cancer surgery, gastrointestinal function has not recovered due to anesthesia, stress, intraoperative gastrointestinal management and other reasons. In this case, complete parenteral nutrition support or partial parenteral nutrition support is used. When lung cancer patients are able to swallow and gastrointestinal function gradually recovers, oral nutrition should be used instead, because this is the best way to improve quality of life. You can gradually transition from liquid and semi-liquid food to solid food. Precautions for postoperative care of lung cancer: Foods rich in protein, carbohydrates and vitamins should be given, such as eggs, milk, lean meat, fresh fish, rice porridge, rice, noodles and other staple and non-staple foods, and various vegetables to provide rich vitamins and inorganic salts, which are also essential foods for patients.

After reading the above, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of postoperative care for lung cancer. I hope you can strictly follow the above requirements. Only in this way can the effect of lung cancer surgery be best. Keeping in touch with the doctor frequently is also very helpful for the patient's recovery. I hope that lung cancer patients will not ignore various nursing work.