Interventional treatment and nursing

Interventional therapy is a general term for treatment. It can treat many diseases, such as vascular diseases, tumor diseases, etc. Interventional therapy has many advantages. It has a wide range of indications and few complications. This treatment method is relatively low-risk. Of course, care should be strengthened after treatment. Let us understand the content of interventional treatment and nursing.

Interventional treatment and nursing

There are many types of diseases that can be treated with interventional therapy, covering almost all major diseases of all systems and organs in the body. Of course, its advantage lies mainly in the minimally invasive treatment of vascular and solid tumors.

Vascular diseases: including percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and vascular stent placement for the treatment of vascular stenosis and occlusion, thrombolytic therapy for the treatment of arteriovenous thrombosis, bleeding control (acute and chronic trauma, postpartum, inflammation, varicose veins, etc.), embolization therapy for vascular malformations and arteriovenous fistulas and hemangiomas, inferior vena cava filters for the prevention of pulmonary embolism, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPSS) technology for the treatment of portal hypertension in cirrhosis, various angiographic diagnoses, venous blood sampling diagnosis, etc.

Tumor diseases: including embolization and drug perfusion of the tumor's blood supply artery, preoperative embolization of tumor blood vessels, percutaneous tumor biopsy, radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation (argon-helium knife), radioactive particle implantation, etc.

Non-vascular interventional techniques include various percutaneous biopsies, various non-vascular cavities (including dilation and stenting of stenosis of the urinary tract, digestive tract, respiratory tract, bile duct, etc.), local inactivation of solid tumors (percutaneous intratumoral injection, radiofrequency ablation), cyst abscess drainage, ostomy (stomach, bladder, etc.), minimally invasive lithotripsy for biliary stones and kidney stones, vertebroplasty for bone metastasis or vertebral compression fractures, and plexus block for the treatment of chronic pain.

advantage

The entire process of interventional treatment is carried out under the guidance and monitoring of imaging equipment. It can accurately and directly reach the local lesion without major trauma. Therefore, it has the advantages of accuracy, safety, efficiency, wide indications and few complications. It has now become the preferred treatment method for some diseases.

1. Diseases requiring medical treatment

Such as chemotherapy for tumors and thrombolysis for blood clots. Compared with medical treatment, the advantages of interventional treatment are: the drugs can act directly on the lesion site, which can not only greatly increase the drug concentration in the lesion site and improve the efficacy, but also greatly reduce the drug dosage and reduce the systemic side effects of the drug.

2. Diseases requiring surgical treatment

The advantages of interventional treatment over surgical treatment are: ① It does not require surgery, no wounds or only a skin incision of a few millimeters to complete the treatment, so it is less traumatic; ② Most patients only need local anesthesia rather than general anesthesia, which reduces the risk of anesthesia; ③ Little damage to normal tissues, fast recovery, and short hospitalization time; ④ For elderly critically ill patients who cannot tolerate surgery or patients who have no chance of surgery, interventional treatment can also provide good treatment.