What should patients with liver cancer interventional treatment pay attention to? Patients with liver cancer interventional treatment should pay attention to these matters

Interventional radiotherapy is an emerging discipline that combines diagnosis and treatment using imaging equipment. With the rapid development of interventional radiology in my country, interventional treatment of advanced liver cancer has been widely used. It can shrink tumors to obtain surgical opportunities, or delay tumor growth, prolong patient survival, and improve the patient's quality of life.

The need for psychological care

When patients are diagnosed with liver cancer, they will experience various complex psychological changes, which are often related to death. Some patients give up on themselves and cannot cooperate with treatment well; some patients have a strong desire to survive, which makes them completely rely on treatment for their lives; in addition to facing the huge mental pressure and fear brought by death, cancer patients also have to endure the pain of cancer and the pain of treatment. Therefore, in interventional treatment, they will show abnormal mental tension, fear and pain. Therefore, it is of great significance to carefully analyze the various psychological changes of patients and implement effective psychological care in interventional treatment. Eliminating the psychological burden of patients and enabling them to cooperate with treatment well can reduce complications during and after surgery.

Patient's psychological manifestations

1. After becoming ill, fearful patients show a stronger desire to survive and want to try any treatment that has a glimmer of hope, pinning their hopes on various treatments. However, they are afraid of the pain caused by the treatment and the possible complications.

(ii) Despair type: This type of symptom often occurs in patients with advanced cancer. They are physically weak, depressed, and have lost confidence in treatment. Some even want to refuse treatment, but reluctantly cooperate out of consideration for the mood of their family members.

3. Pessimistic cancer is a recognized incurable disease. After the onset of the disease, patients are stimulated mentally and psychologically to varying degrees, resulting in depression, pessimism and disappointment. When patients come for treatment, they look sad and extremely unhappy.

Nursing experience

The above-mentioned psychological manifestations, if not channeled in time, will often bring great disadvantages to treatment.

1. Preoperative psychological care: Nurses should understand the patient's psychology and have deep sympathy and understanding for the patient and his family. They should comfort the family with a high degree of sympathy, first of all, help the patient's family overcome pessimism and work together to do a good job of ideological work on the patient. In addition, the simple process of the operation and possible complications, the side effects of the drugs and preventive measures and precautions should be introduced to the patient and his family to eliminate their ideological concerns and enhance their confidence in treatment, so as to achieve close cooperation.

(II) Intraoperative psychological care During the operation, closely observe the changes in the patient's condition, deal with any reactions in a timely manner, take the initiative to care for and understand the patient's psychological activities. Explain more to prevent the patient's emotional fluctuations from affecting the smooth progress of the operation. In short, timely concern and inquiry during the operation, simple and friendly answers to questions, try to comfort the patient with words, divert the patient's attention, maintain the patient's good psychological balance, and make the operation go smoothly.

(III) Postoperative psychological care We extend our sympathy and care for patients outside the interventional room. Through follow-up, we understand the patient's reaction to the use of contrast agents and chemotherapy drugs. Through mutual conversation, we deepen the understanding and trust between patients and their families and nurses, and improve the relationship between nurses and patients.

in conclusion

Psychological care for interventional treatment of liver cancer is an important aspect of the entire treatment process for patients. It not only enhances patients' confidence in overcoming the disease, but also enables patients to actively cooperate with doctors in interventional treatment.

To provide good psychological care, we should first understand the patient's condition, talk with the patient, and find out the type of emotional fluctuations of the patient, so as to provide effective psychological care. According to the different psychological changes of the patient, we should prescribe the right medicine and do active and meticulous ideological work to relieve the patient's psychological changes, such as mental tension, psychological fear, pessimism, disappointment, despair, etc., so that the interventional treatment can achieve satisfactory results as much as possible to save the patient's life.