Care After Surgery for Pituitary Tumors

Nursing care after pituitary tumor surgery mainly includes: 1, general vital signs monitoring, mainly including patient’s blood pressure, respiration, pulse, body temperature, etc. 2, airway care, for patients after pituitary tumor surgery, must need to pay attention to airway care, because some patients may have post-surgery intracranial hemorrhage, this kind of patients have hemorrhage can easily cause airway asphyxiation, and it can easily lead to death if not detected in early. 3.Urinary volume monitoring, it is easy to damage the pituitary stalk during the surgery of pituitary tumor, which will lead to uremia, if the patient’s urine volume increases, especially when the urine volume exceeds 250ml per hour, lasts for 1-2 hours, and the specific gravity of urine is lower than 1.005, it needs to be highly suspected of uremia at this moment, and it is necessary to notify the doctor immediately, and give the appropriate treatment.4.It is necessary to observe whether there are complications such as epilepsy, cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and so on.