(i) Choice of season for surgery: In principle, surgery is not affected by temperature, so you can operate in any season.
(ii) Pre-admission preparation.
1. Patients who have been diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia or facial spasm should find the director through the internet or by phone to make a detailed statement of their condition and book a bed. The bed reservation should be made one week in advance, in general. The beds are for 2~3 rooms, and the hospital can provide a companion bed to facilitate escorting.
2. When you go to the hospital, you should bring the information of the tests that have been done locally, such as MRI, etc. If you are suffering from other diseases, it is better to bring the relevant examination data for the doctor’s reference. In order not to increase the cost of the patient, as long as the information is valuable, generally do not ask for repeat tests.
3.The whole treatment cost varies slightly according to individual differences and the number of examination items, generally around 25,000 to 30,000 yuan. You don’t need to bring a lot of cash as the hospital can take credit card.
4. From admission to discharge is generally 12 days, there is no need to bring too much clothing. The first day of admission, the next day to do the relevant examination, and then arrange for surgery, if the post-operative recovery is smooth, the eighth to ninth day after surgery discharge settlement.
5. It is best to have two escorts, mainly for the first night after the patient’s surgery, who need to take turns to take care of the patient, who need to wipe and clean up the vomit at any time, and to pay attention to releasing the patient’s urine bag at the right time and record the urine volume. After the 1st and 2nd day, one person care on the line.
6, the patient’s family accommodation, there are many hotels near the hospital, grade low and medium, 50 ~ 100 meters from the west gate.
7, meals are also very convenient, the hospital has a canteen, the canteen staff to the ward every day to order meals, patients order meals, the next day three meals delivered to the ward; can also directly to the canteen dining. The canteen is very close to the wards, and the size of the canteen is not large, so you have to go early for meals, and if you are a little late, you will be short of soup and food. If the patient needs special diet, you can also go to the hospital outside the bistro ready to do.
8. There is a small supermarket on the first floor of the inpatient department, where general daily necessities can be met. There is a large supermarket 200 meters southwest of the hospital.
(C), pre-operative preparation.
1, should be prepared: lunch boxes, cutlery, spoons, straws used by patients (for postoperative feeding); cardigan tops, slippers (convenient for postoperative wear); toilet paper two large rolls (postoperative anesthesia woke up, patients will vomit, wipe vomit with); hot treasure or hot water bag (postoperative anesthesia woke up, patients will appear a short period of cold feeling, warm body with, also convenient for infusion warming); urinal or spittoon (after surgery to receive urine bag urine).
2, the day before surgery, the patient should take a bath, wash hair, half a month after surgery can not wash hair. Patients should not drink or eat again after 10 pm.
3.One day before the operation, the director or his assistant will personally give a preoperative talk to the patient and family members, play relevant information, explain in detail the knowledge and precautions related to the treatment, and conduct preoperative patient and family signatures. At the same time, the anesthesiologist in the operating room also conducts a preoperative talk, and the patient and family sign preoperatively.
4.Nurses contact shaving and arrange precautions.
5.Where surgery patients are operated by the director himself, this can be assured.
(iv) Surgery.
The surgery is performed with an incision behind the ear and a dollar coin-sized hole in the skull, under a microscope, with a high success rate. Surgery time, from the operating room to out of the general 3-3.5 hours. There is an analogy for the risk of the surgery – “it’s like crossing the road”. There is a risk of being hit by a car while crossing the road, to varying degrees, but after all, it is only possible and the probability is too low.
Before surgery, patients in the ward should change into the hospital’s patient-specific clothing and pants, and be well marked by the surgical staff (left and right,) to prevent the wrong surgical site, sent to the operating room by special medical staff and confirm the patient’s identity with the nurse of the surgical operation and make a good handover, after the operation, the patient will be escorted to the anesthesia recovery room and pushed back to the ward after the patient is basically awake.
(e) Nursing.
After the operation, the patient will return to the ward, and the medical staff will immediately give the patient oxygen, cardiac monitoring, and infusion of fluids. At this time, the escort should put toilet paper pads around the patient’s mouth to prevent sudden vomiting. Another patient will have a short period of cold feeling after waking up from anesthesia, and even shivering, which is mostly related to anesthesia, you can put a good hot water bag on the patient’s feet to help warm them, the hot water bag should be wrapped with a towel to prevent burns. After everything is secure and ready, in addition to strictly in accordance with medical advice care, personal experience also pay attention to the following points.
1, 24 hours after surgery, may be intermittent vomiting, pay attention to receive vomit at any time, scrub.
2, 24 hours after surgery, to lie flat, can not swing the head substantially, can not lift the head otherwise dizziness, vomiting aggravated.
3.Patients will have a catheter inserted after surgery, and the urine bag should be discharged immediately when it reaches a certain amount of urine, and the 24-hour urine volume should be recorded for the reference of medical staff.
4.On the day of surgery, no drinking water, drinking water will aggravate vomiting (individual differences), available cotton swabs dipped in water to moisten the patient’s lips and mouth.
5.The day after surgery, oxygen and monitoring are withdrawn. Depending on the situation, the bed can be shaken up several times, little by little, to elevate the patient’s upper body, do not elevate too much and too hard at a time, to prevent dizziness and vomiting. You can feed water in several times, little by little, starting from half a spoon, and gradually increase the amount if you do not vomit. If you drink water normally, you can also feed liquid food in moderation. But the ward lacks a microwave oven for patients to heat up meals, so it is inconvenient for patients to eat small amounts many times, so we use the method of boiling water to heat up.
6. On the third day after surgery, you can basically sit up and eat easily digestible food. We should pay attention to clip the catheter closed and open it when there is a sense of urination, so that it is easy to urinate by yourself after removing the catheter.
7.On the fourth day, the catheter is removed and you can get out of bed and eat normally.
8.On the fifth day, everything was back to normal except for water transfusion.
9.After the removal of stitches, the hospital was discharged.
V. Postoperative situation.
(I), the moment I woke up from anesthesia, the trigeminal nerve was relieved (patients with facial spasm were similarly relieved after surgery, the surgery was amazing!) It can be said that the hand was removed from the disease.
(b), the medicine will be changed after the surgery, and you cannot wash your hair during the wound healing period.
(C), the recovery period of 1-3 months, taking nerve-nourishing drugs complex vitamins.
(iv), recovery period condition.
1. There is a numbness in the skin near the incision after surgery, like the feeling of having anesthetic injection for tooth extraction. The area of numbness can be improved day by day.
2. Occasionally, due to the fierce head swinging and excessive head lowering, transient dizziness and headache occurred.
3.According to other patients’ communication and observation, tinnitus and facial numbness are isolated phenomena.
I hope this “treatment process” can be helpful to friends who are suffering from the same disease.
Once again, due to individual differences in age, physical condition and illness, the same disease may have different feelings, so please refer to friends with caution. Please consult, understand and compare in detail before choosing the treatment method that suits you.
I wish all friends with the same disease a speedy recovery!