Laparoscopic postoperative care for gastric cancer

The health of a person's stomach directly affects his appetite. Therefore, if people want to eat well, they must first have a healthy stomach. However, there are many diseases in society that affect people's stomach health. The biggest impact is gastric cancer. So how should gastric cancer patients take care of their bodies after surgery?

1. Psychological rehabilitation nursing

No matter what disease you suffer from, it will cause psychological impact and pressure on the patient, let alone such a serious disease as gastric cancer? Psychological care often plays a very important role in disease and treatment. Such patients suffer both psychologically and physically, especially most patients who undergo chemotherapy after surgery have psychological disorders, especially patients who receive large-dose combined chemotherapy. Due to the severe reaction of chemotherapy, they often have doubts, fears, and nervousness. Therefore, patients should be comforted, sympathized, and encouraged, and the necessity of chemotherapy and the knowledge, understanding, precautions, and side effects of chemotherapy should be explained to them, so that patients can strengthen their confidence in defeating the disease and play an active role in cooperating with treatment.

II. Rehabilitation nursing for postoperative chemotherapy of gastric cancer

Gastric cancer is a common malignant tumor. Postoperative chemotherapy is one of the important measures for the treatment of gastric cancer. Rehabilitation care in this regard should be focused on. The combined use of chemotherapy drugs has achieved significant results in clinical practice, but patients are weaker after surgery. Giving a large amount of chemotherapy drugs at the same time is a big blow to patients. Therefore, it is very important to provide good care for chemotherapy patients.

3. Observation of vital organs and blood picture

Surgery for gastric cancer patients will cause some damage to the patient's organs and functions. At this time, observation of important organs and blood counts after gastric cancer surgery is the key to gastric cancer rehabilitation care. Patients with unstable vital signs, dysfunction of important organs such as the heart, liver, and kidneys, and low white blood cells should be treated first, and chemotherapy should be performed after their physical condition improves. The function of important organs and blood cell counts should be reviewed in time during and after chemotherapy. If there is damage to important organs and low granulocytes, chemotherapy should be stopped in time and active treatment should be given. Early detection and early treatment should be achieved in nursing to prevent the occurrence of complications such as failure of important organ functions and nosocomial infection, hemolysis, and bleeding.

IV. Rehabilitation care for gastrointestinal reactions

Gastric cancer surgery mainly involves surgery on the stomach and its surrounding areas, which will cause some gastrointestinal reactions. At this time, rehabilitation care for gastrointestinal reactions is also a matter of attention. During chemotherapy, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, hair loss, and general weakness are the most common side effects of chemotherapy patients. Therefore, before chemotherapy, patients should be fully explained to allow them to have a certain psychological preparation, help them overcome their fear, maintain an optimistic attitude, and actively cooperate with the treatment. Pay attention to eating light and easily digestible food, and preventively give sedatives and antiemetics before chemotherapy. Large doses or combined use of antiemetics can effectively control nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy and reduce patients' chemotherapy reactions.

Gastric cancer is a disease that can seriously damage people's stomachs. Therefore, everyone who suffers from gastric cancer must take treatment measures and choose a treatment method that is suitable for their body. If gastric cancer patients undergo surgery, then after the operation, they must take the above methods to care for their bodies and thus ensure their health.