How to care for elderly patients with liver cancer? Elderly patients with liver cancer should pay attention to three aspects of care

The number of elderly patients with liver cancer is on the rise. Good care for liver cancer patients can help them recover after surgery and prolong their lives. Liver cancer care has become a key clinical task, and care for elderly patients with liver cancer is even more important to reduce their suffering.

Nursing points for elderly patients with liver cancer:

1. Observe the condition:

Because elderly liver cancer patients have slow reactions and poor subjective feelings, early signs of disease changes are often easily overlooked. Therefore, disease observation must be comprehensive, timely, and accurate in order to take the initiative in treatment and care.

Therefore, medical staff should pay attention to strengthening inspections and strive to organically combine the observation of vital signs with the four examinations. Through monitoring of body temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration, as well as observing the patient's consciousness, tongue, pulse, smell, and urine and feces, they can timely and accurately understand the patient's condition and strive to find the precursors of various complications early to gain precious time for rescue.

2. Psychological care:

How to care for elderly patients with liver cancer? Medical staff should go deep into the wards, understand the patient's psychological state and thoughts in detail, and take corresponding nursing measures for different causes of emotional abnormalities; help patients eliminate their worries and reduce psychological pressure. At the same time, in view of the fact that elderly patients with liver cancer prefer traditional Chinese medicine, tell patients about traditional Chinese medicine theory such as "the liver likes to be smooth and hates depression", "anger hurts the liver, and worry hurts the spleen". Let patients understand that negative emotions are not conducive to recovery. Consciously pay attention to regulating emotions, keep a good mood, and actively cooperate with treatment.

3. Care for diet, excretion and daily life:

Emphasis should be placed on preventing complications in terms of diet, excretion, and daily life, mainly because elderly patients with liver cancer generally have symptoms such as indigestion, malnutrition, esophageal varices, and tumors that are easily ruptured by abdominal pressure.

Choose nutritious, delicious, soft, warm and easy-to-digest food to ensure adequate daily intake of calories, protein and vitamins to improve nutritional status and immune function. Avoid eating rough, hard, spicy and overly hot food. For those with premonitory symptoms of hepatic coma, protein intake should be limited to prevent complications such as gastrointestinal bleeding and hepatic coma caused by improper diet. For patients with damp-heat constipation, they should be advised to eat more vegetables, fruits and honey to facilitate bowel movements.

Guide patients to develop a habit of regular bowel movements. Avoid exerting excessive force during bowel movements to avoid increasing abdominal pressure. Pay attention to changes in the climate and add or remove clothing and bedding for patients in a timely manner to prevent patients from being invaded by external pathogens such as wind and cold and causing infection.

As we all know, liver cancer patients suffer a lot. Good nursing care can reduce patients' bad emotions and relieve their pain. Experts suggest that family members of liver cancer patients should pay attention to their diet, observe the patient's condition at any time, encourage patients to cooperate with doctors' treatment, and prolong their lives.