Nursing care of esophageal stent.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 8 Nursing care of esophageal stent [Keywords:] Esophageal Stent; esophageal stenosis; postoperative care Patients with esophageal stricture and discomfort due to swallowing difficulties and poor quality of life of patients in pain, depression, in the past require surgery. In recent years, minimally invasive esophageal stent placement as the main and effective treatment of esophageal stenosis, emerging technology, it quickly expansion of the esophagus, esophageal stricture obstruction .2008 alleviate February to February 2009, our department made of nitinol stent used as a palliative treatment for esophageal stenosis, achieved very good results, but several complications may occur after . Therefore, and postoperative treatment and care, especially diet care, to reduce complications, improve quality of life and longevity are important. now under the guidance of endoscopic stenting of care reported as follows. 1 Data and methods 1.1 General information select from February 2008 to February 2009, in our department 36 patients hospitalized, including 28 males and 8 females. 11 patients with advanced esophageal cancer, esophageal stricture after surgery, 14 cases of esophageal stricture after radiation therapy 11 cases. The average age of 58.3 years. 1.2 Treatment Equipment GIFXQ260 Olympus gastroscope, Changzhou minimally invasive produced nitinol stents. 1.3 How regular expansion in the gastroscope, from fine to coarse gradually expanded to 5 ~ 11 mm. Select the appropriate size frame, positioning accuracy and placed in the observation of the endoscopic placement and effect. 2 Results Endoscopic placement of nitinol stent in the treatment of domestic cases of esophageal stricture in 36 cases, stent expansion of good, recent remission rate was 100%. Esophageal diameter after stenting was significantly higher than before the expansion, the use of Chinese Version of condensed Health Questionnaire (SF -36) [5] on the esophag