How should lung cancer patients be treated in the late stage?

        Cancer patients will become more and more painful in the late stage of the disease, and more attention should be paid to the care of patients with advanced cancer. It should include palliative treatment, symptom treatment and careful clinical care and kind care to improve the patient's Quality of Life. This time, the small series of Huierkang Medical in Suzhou will analyze how the elderly patients with lung cancer should be treated in the late stage to improve their quality of life and survival.

　　One: control pain, the control of pain here is recommended to use Chinese medicine treatment, Western medicine is generally used anesthesia method, the standard is not cured, and some Western medicine painkillers will be dependent on patients.

　　1: Body surface analgesic method: This method can stimulate the skin around the pain site or the corresponding healthy side to achieve pain relief by massage, cooling painkillers, etc. Or use a hot water bottle around 65 °C on a wet towel for local hot compress, each time for 20 minutes, can achieve a certain analgesic effect.

　　2: Attention Transfer and Pain Relief Method: According to the patient's hobbies, you can put some music that he likes to listen to, let the patient enjoy the clap action while watching the rhythm; or let the patient see some jokes and humorous stories; In the chair, close your eyes and recall your childhood fun, in order to transfer the pain.

　　3: Relaxation and pain relief method: Let the patient close his eyes, sigh, sigh, etc., then bend his hips to knees, relax the abdominal muscles, back muscles, and slowly make abdominal breathing. Or let the patient in the relatively quiet environment, slowly and slowly inhale and exhale, let the fresh air enter the lungs, in order to achieve the purpose of pain relief.

Two: relieve symptoms

　　1: Prevention of hemorrhoids: The nutritional status of patients with advanced lung cancer is generally poor, and the body will have edema, it is prone to hemorrhoids, and it is rapidly expanding and difficult to cure, so it is especially important for the prevention of hemorrhoids. Reduce the local pressure, change the position on time, use the balloon and air cushion in the body to be pressed, to avoid long-term compression. Keep the skin clean, especially for patients with incontinence, keep the bed clean and flat, and use a lamp to keep the skin broken and keep it dry.

　　2: relieve symptoms: one of the main symptoms of lung cancer patients is fever, should pay attention to patients to keep warm, prevent colds, so as not to cause pneumonia; for irritating cough, you can fight antitussive; if the patient continues to cough at night, you can give patients a fever Water to relieve irritation of the throat;

　　If the patient has a large amount of hemoptysis, the doctor should be notified immediately, and the patient's head should be turned to one side to promptly remove the blood inside the mouth to prevent the patient from suffocating.

　　3: Condition observation and nursing: patients with advanced lung cancer may have different tumors in different locations, causing different symptoms, so usually pay more attention to observation and care. If the liver and brain metastasize, the patient may have sudden coma, convulsions, and unclear things. If the bone is displaced, the limb protection should be strengthened. Intestinal obstruction often occurs in the abdominal metastasis. It should be observed that other people have symptoms such as abdominal distension and abdominal pain. Because of weakness, fatigue, decreased activity, etc., patients often have constipation and should be given in time. Kaisailu or laxatives are laxative. Edema can occur due to malnutrition and low plasma protein. Measures such as increasing nutrition and raising the affected limb should reduce edema.

　　Three: attach importance to psychological care

　　Patients with advanced cancer are often accompanied by anxiety, fear, sadness, etc., and often appear indifferent and lonely. At this time, we must have a high degree of compassion and responsibility, and strive to create a warm and harmonious environment for patients, placed in a single ward. In the language, the language is cordial and the attitude is sincere. Encourage the patient to express his or her psychological feelings, promptly enlighten, and actively introduce the patient to the patient's condition.