The focus of post-operative care of breast cancer:
1. Ipsilateral upper extremity rehabilitation, training: 24 hours after surgery to encourage patients to wrist, and the Department of elbow flexion and extension movement, but to avoid the outreach arm. Get out of bed after 48 hours, activities, application of tape to prop up limbs Rotary, Rotary Do not take other people to support the affected side, so as not to affect the healing axillary flap slide. After 1 week of activities for the shoulder. 10-12 days to encourage patients to proceed with the surgery side of self-care, such as brushing teeth, hair, face, etc., and carry out joint activities in the entire upper arm.
2. Observe whether postoperative seroma, flap necrosis, complications such as upper extremity edema.
3. Observation of vital signs: monitor their blood pressure and heart rate changes, to prevent the shock occurs, observe breathing changes, to determine whether intraoperative pleural injury caused by pneumothorax.
4. Wound Care: You need to use after mastectomy with chest compression bandage.
5. Drainage tube care: â‘ flap drainage tube properly fixed, to maintain unobstructed drainage. â‘¡ to observe the drainage of fluid color, nature and quantity.
