Key points of care for patients with pituitary tumors

1.Health guidance: Master communication skills, establish good nurse-patient relationship with patients and their families, strengthen communication, actively collect patient’s data, and for the lack of patient’s knowledge about the disease they are suffering from, nurses apply in-depth language to explain the preoperative preparation and the methods that need to be cooperated with after surgery, so that patients can build up confidence and introduce successful cases to relieve fear and actively cooperate with treatment in a good state of mind.

2.Headache: Evaluate the cause of the patient’s increased intracranial pressure and the effect of pain on the patient, explain the cause of pain, closely observe the patient’s performance during headache, such as changes in vital signs, consciousness and pupils, and administer medication as prescribed by the doctor to relieve pain. Once it is found that the impairment of consciousness deepens, pupil size is unequal, and the reflex to light disappears, etc., that is, brain herniation may occur, which should be immediately reported to the doctor and actively resuscitated.

3, preoperative preparation: 1 d before surgery to cut nasal hair, should be careful not to damage the nasal mucosa, patients with rhinitis, paranasal sinus must wait for inflammation control before surgery. And instruct to practice open mouth breathing, preoperative oral care once. Patients with psychological tension and difficulty in sleeping should be given psychological guidance. Fasting from food and water for 10h before surgery.