Question 1: What are the dangers of funnel chest?
Answer:
1, funnel chest will compress the heart and lungs, leading to a decline in cardiopulmonary function, reducing the patient’s exercise capacity, and further affecting the body, intellectual development and even affect the function of the whole body.
2, affect the aesthetics, patients can not undress in group life, bathing, swimming, etc..
3, affects the psychology, generating a sense of inferiority, which can lead to heart disease in the long term, including depression, etc.
Question 2: Is the funnel chest related to calcium deficiency? Can calcium supplementation improve it?
A: The occurrence of funnel chest is not closely related to calcium deficiency, so calcium supplementation alone cannot correct it.
Question 3: What is the age range for treatment?
A: The age range for treatment is between 3-30 years old, and the best age for treatment is 5-20 years old. Of course, the younger the age, the easier the orthopedic treatment will be, and therefore the less painful the patient will be.
Question 4: How to use minimally invasive to orthopedic?
A: The thoracoscopic Nuss procedure, or minimally invasive funnel chest orthopedic surgery, is used. Roughly, there are two small incisions on the right side of the chest, about 3 cm and 1.5 cm long respectively, and one small incision on the left side of the chest, about 2.5 cm. A plate is placed into the lowest point of the sternum and the depressed sternum is elevated to the normal level. Since the incision is small and on the lateral chest wall, it does not affect the aesthetics too much.
Q5: Do I need to take out the plate after surgery?
A: The plate should be removed 2-3 years after surgery.
Q6: Is the surgery safe?
A: It is very safe, we have done nearly 20 cases, the bleeding is very small, usually only about a few milliliters.
Question 7: Is the procedure painful?
A: It is painful, but tolerable. It is usually heavier 1-2 days after surgery and then relieved, and can be relieved by oral pain medication. Patients can leave bed 1 day after surgery.
Q8: What is the approximate length of hospital stay?
A: About 7-10 days, including preoperative and postoperative.
Q9: How long does it take to recover after surgery?
A: You can be discharged from the hospital in 4-7 days after surgery, and you can basically do your normal activities and study in about 1 month. Therefore, students can choose to receive the surgery during the winter and summer holidays.
Q10: What is the cost of the surgery?
A: The total cost with but one plate is about 35,000, mainly because the plate is expensive (imported from the US) at 23,000. And the total cost of 2 heel plates is about 60,000 or less.
Question 11: What are the advantages of this procedure compared to conventional surgical orthopedics in the past?
Answer.
1, Nuss surgery has a small incision in the lateral chest wall for good aesthetics; while conventional surgery is in the anterior mid-thorax and is much longer than the Nuss method.
2.The Nuss method does not require removal of rib cartilage, so it does not change the original chest wall structure and does not affect the function; whereas conventional surgery requires removal of multiple ribs bilaterally and re-suturing, which, together with factors such as turning, can lead to stiffness of the chest wall after healing and affect the respiratory function of the thorax.
3.Nuss surgery has very little bleeding, far less than conventional surgery, so the safety is good.
4.Nuss surgery time is short, usually within 1 hour, much lower than conventional surgery.
5.Nuss surgery is aseptic surgery, which is not easy to be infected after surgery, and the use of antibiotics is less; while conventional surgery has a high chance of postoperative infection due to the large trauma and long time, and is prone to fluid accumulation, so the postoperative medication takes a long time.
6.Short hospitalization time, the total hospital time is generally about 7-10 days, which is much lower than the hospital time of conventional surgery.