What Osteosarcoma Care Entails

Osteosarcoma is a disease that endangers human life. Once you have osteosarcoma, you should go to a regular hospital for treatment in time, and don't delay the best treatment time. You need to do some nursing work before the operation. Many people will ask me what is needed to care for osteosarcoma patients? So now let us understand what is needed to care for osteosarcoma patients!

After osteosarcoma is diagnosed by pathology, early chemotherapy or radiotherapy begins. Resection of tumor tissue is an important step in the treatment of osteosarcoma. With the improvement of tumor surgical technology and the development of implant research, limb preservation therapy has shown a good treatment prospect. Consolidation chemotherapy or radiotherapy after tumor tissue resection is very important for controlling tumor metastasis and improving survival rate.

Nursing of patients with osteosarcoma requires the following:

1) Surgery is usually performed 2 weeks after the last preoperative chemotherapy. It is important to maintain a healthy and optimistic mentality, regular work and rest habits, a reasonable diet and nutrition, and avoid overwork and fatigue to delay the progression of the disease and improve the quality of life.

(2) Osteosarcoma patients often undergo systemic chemotherapy before surgery, which consumes a lot of energy in the body and reduces immunity. They should strengthen systemic nutritional supplements to enhance their physical fitness.

(3) Perform complete blood analysis and urine routine test. Surgery should be prohibited if there is cachexia, multiple metastases throughout the body, or white blood cell count is less than 3x109/L.

(4) Keep warm, prevent colds, measure body temperature regularly, and observe whether you have a fever.

(5) Intravenous administration of effective antibiotics 2 hours before surgery can greatly reduce postoperative infection.

The above introduction is what needs to be done for the care of osteosarcoma patients. I believe everyone has understood it. Osteosarcoma must be diagnosed early, treated early, and preoperative care must be done well to be in a good state to welcome the surgery and minimize the postoperative complications of osteosarcoma.