Head and neck oral and maxillofacial surgery patient nasal comfort care.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Head and neck oral and maxillofacial surgery patient nasal comfort care [Keywords:] Head and Neck Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery nasal comfort care Head and neck in patients with oral and maxillofacial surgery to promote wound healing and prevent infection, temporarily unable to eat by mouth and must be resolved through nasal feeding dietary problem, if improper diet, a variety of adverse reactions can occur, seriously affecting the body’s recovery, so nasal feeding diet nursing important [1-2]. As surgeries, has caused great suffering to patients, so take comfort care in patients with nasal feeding is particularly important now after my surgery experience of comfort care of patients with nasal reported as follows. 1 Materials and Methods 1.1 Clinical data from January 2006 to July 2008, our department inpatients given post-operative care of nasal feeding comfortable 67 patients, 49 males and 18 females, aged from 31 to 83 years, mean age 52 years. Which laryngeal 36 cases, 9 cases of floor of mouth cancer, 16 cases of lip cancer, tongue cancer, 1 case of myoepithelioma of palate in 3 cases, 1 case of epulis, lower lip hemangioma in 1 case. 1.2 Methods According to the patient’s age, personality characteristics, diet, surgical site and incision wound size, to give adequate psychological care and home management before, during and after the comfort care, so that patients discharged concerns, emotional stability, and actively cooperate with the treatment and care . 1.3 Results after 67 cases of head and neck oral and maxillofacial surgery patients to take comfortable and effective nasal care, no complications occurred in 1 case, to improve the patient’s subjective satisfaction, but also improve the quality of care, were discharged. 2 nasal comfort care 2.1 indwelling comfortable nursing in front of nasal feeding tube indwelling feeding tube before the careful assessment of the psychological status of patients and the