What to prepare for funnel chest surgery

1. General preparation Increase or decrease the clothes according to the temperature change to prevent cold and flu. Instruct the patients with funnel chest to practice effective coughing, coughing up sputum and abdominal breathing, and practice urination and defecation in bed. Prepare the skin in the operation area and keep the skin clean, and forbid food and water for 8 hours before the operation to prevent aspiration pneumonia and asphyxia caused by anesthesia or vomiting during the operation. Keep the environment of the hospital room clean and quiet, to ensure that the child sleep, if necessary, follow the doctor's advice to give sedative sleeping drugs.

2. Nutritional support Because of the sternum compression of the heart, lungs, esophagus, some children with funnel chest are stunted, weak, prone to respiratory infections, and there is food reflux phenomenon after eating, we should assess the nutritional status of the patient before the funnel chest surgery, explain the importance of the importance of nutritional support and the need for preoperative, and guide the patient to eat a high-protein, high-calorie, high-vitamin diet: such as meat, eggs, milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. vegetables. If necessary, intravenous infusion, supplemental energy, vitamins, the application of antibiotics and hemostatic drugs.

3. Psychological care Older patients with funnel chest are more worried, mainly in the fear of surgery, anesthesia, worry about the effect of funnel chest surgery orthopedics, as well as the impact of surgery on learning and life. Nurses should communicate with patients and their families in a timely manner to understand the patient's psychological condition and cooperate with doctors to educate disease knowledge. According to the age and psychological characteristics of different patients, explain the necessity, brief process and postoperative effect of funnel chest surgery. It can introduce the situation of previous cases in this department, and can also be carried out with the help of pictures, photos, and written publicity materials.