1.Is it dangerous to have cardiovascular surgery?
With the continuous improvement and development of cardiovascular surgery techniques and equipment, the perioperative mortality rate of cardiovascular patients is gradually decreasing. Currently, the mortality rate of common cardiovascular surgery is about 2%, while the mortality rate of complex and severe cardiac surgery is slightly higher. This means that the vast majority of patients will have a good outcome through surgery.
2.Why should I stop smoking before and after surgery?
It is well known that smoking is harmful to health, especially for heart patients. This is because smoking increases the secretions in the lungs, especially after surgical stimulation. This can easily lead to post-operative lung complications and even respiratory insufficiency. If you stop smoking a few weeks or even a few months before surgery, it will play an important role in reducing pulmonary complications and promoting early recovery after surgery.
3.Why should I apply polarizing fluid before surgery?
Polarizing fluid is an extremely inexpensive (about $20) and clearly effective treatment. It can nourish the myocardium to improve myocardial energy reserve and improve myocardial energy metabolism, so the preoperative use of polarizing fluid is beneficial to improve cardiac function and for the recovery of cardiac function after surgery.
4.What should I tell my healthcare provider when applying digitalis?
Long-term use of digitalis-like drugs should be fully observed for toxic reactions, such as.
(1) Anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other digestive system symptoms.
(2) Neurological symptoms such as blurred vision, yellow vision, green vision, dizziness, headache, fatigue, insomnia, etc.
(3) Slow heart rate, heart rate and pulse below 60 beats per minute.
These symptoms should be promptly sought and medication should be adjusted.
5.How should the patient control the amount of activity during hospitalization?
Those with good heart function and physical condition can move around in the corridor and indoors, while those with poor heart function should rest in bed more often. After surgery, they should also turn over and cough more often to facilitate lung expansion and sputum discharge, and if possible, they should strengthen the muscle massage of legs and waist to avoid deep vein thrombosis of lower limbs. You should get out of bed as early as possible when your condition allows, which will be beneficial to the recovery of your condition.
6.Why should we keep track of urine volume? Why is potassium supplementation necessary for cardiac diuretics?
Patients on diuretic therapy should keep track of their urine volume to observe the diuretic effect and to adjust the dose of medication, and to facilitate the doctor to make up potassium according to the urine volume. Patients treated with diuretics generally have more urine, and more potassium is carried away in the urine, resulting in a relative lack of potassium in the body. After the human body is low in potassium, a series of adverse reactions such as weakness, cardiac arrhythmia, and even cardiac arrest will occur.
7.What should I pay attention to when giving infusions to heart patients?
(1) Control the amount of infusion, 500-1500ml per day, at a slow pace to avoid increasing the load on the heart.
(2) Patients who are infused with special drugs (such as sodium nitroprusside, dobutamine, isoprenaline, etc.) should be adjusted by nurses according to the specific situation of blood pressure and heart rate, and private adjustment of infusion speed is strictly prohibited.
8.Why should we control the company and visitation?
The hospital is a place for treatment and recuperation of the sick and wounded, especially for heart patients with low resistance and easy infection. If the visitors are not restricted, it is difficult to maintain a quiet and clean environment required by the surgical patients, and it is easy to increase the chance of patient infection. Once the infection leads to heart failure, it will deepen the disease. This delays the patient’s surgery and causes an unnecessary financial burden.
All in all, after suffering from heart disease, it is necessary to improve one’s living habits, actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, and adhere to the medication, in order to be able to control the disease well and recover health early.