Breast cancer is the majority of women are unable to accept the disease, but in the face of illness, patients also need to bravely face the reality. Well before surgery if adequate preparation, may make the patient calm many. Here is adequate preparation, including psychological and physical aspects. Should be preparing the following:
(1) Psychological preparation: before surgery, doctors should be disease diagnosis, treatment, possible complications, and prevention measures are fully in all aspects of the study and discuss various aspects of the patients and their families should be accountable to clear that in order to obtain the patient’s trust and cooperation. Patients and their families should also ask ourselves unreservedly to the attending physician on breast cancer surgery and prognosis of concern and obtain physician’s explanation in order to more fully operative psychological preparation, their families and caregivers also should be encouraged patients.
(2) physical preparation: mainly refers to the maintenance of physiological state of the patient preparation, so that patients in better condition, security through the surgery. For a list of experts is as follows:
1. A variety of measures should be taken before surgery to prevent infection. To improve the patient’s constitution, the principle of strictly controlled sterile, surgical operations gentle, in the implementation of the larger breast cancer can be prophylactic antibiotics before surgery.
2. In the implementation of a large breast cancer blood test before the surgery should be prepared and cross with the pilot to prepare for a certain amount of whole blood.
3. To adapt to changes in exercise after surgery: Most patients are not accustomed to relieve themselves in bed, before surgery should be practicing. Post-operative patients are unwilling to cough due to incisional pain, should the church right before surgery cough and sputum method. Smoking habits of patients, preoperative 2 weeks should be to stop smoking.
4. The best in the implementation of a large breast cancer in about 1 week before surgery, by oral, injection or intravenous high-nutrition approach for patients to provide adequate calories, protein and vitamins.
5. If you find that patients have body temperature or women’s menstrual cramps, etc., should be deferred date of operation. Night before surgery may be given sedatives to ensure the patient’s enough sleep. Urine before emptying into the operating room, it is estimated surgical patients in a long time should be indwelling catheter. In addition, the activities of the patient’s denture should be removed, so as not to fall off during anesthesia or surgery, or ingested.
6. Breast cancer before surgery need not be restricted diet, but 12 hours before surgery should start fasting, 4 hours a ban on drinking water, to prevent a result of anesthesia or surgery in the process of vomiting caused by suffocation, or aspiration pneumonia, if necessary, Application of gastrointestinal decompression. The day before surgery should be soapy water enema.
