Nursing hospitals are increasingly being visited by cancer patients as well as patients with geriatric diseases such as dementia, stroke (paralysis), high blood pressure and diabetes, patients who need rehabilitation treatment such as post-surgery recovery treatment and long-term care.
Cancer disease is no longer synonymous with incurable disease, but is classified as a disease that can be cured through treatment and recovery. For cancer patients, surgery is not the end but the beginning of rehabilitation. Therefore, especially for patients before and after cancer surgery, the need to consider recuperation as essential for long-term and short-term recovery is emerging.
First and foremost, it is important that treatment be tailored to the disease and condition. In addition, it is important to strengthen the patient’s immunity, help recover physical strength, and relieve mental stress while performing in-depth treatments in parallel.
Cancer patients can suffer from various side effects from surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. It is necessary to manage this systematically. In general, the important point in management is whether treatment and management for cancer are customized, and whether the aftereffects of chemotherapy and radiation treatment are being managed. It is also necessary to check whether the treatment and diet that can help prevent recurrence or metastasis are provided.
Cancer is not a disease that can be cured with chemotherapy or radiation therapy. It can be seen that it is included in the cancer treatment process in a broad sense, including post-cancer care for a healthy return to daily life. The reason why systematic management is necessary is that secondary cancer, recurrence, or metastasis can occur at any time.
In addition, patients who endure treatment have to endure a very difficult process. Therefore, it is necessary to be able to manage the emotional part in order to reduce the depression and fatigue that cancer patients can feel as well as medical treatment.
Medical departments such as internal medicine and neurology also need to figure out whether they can respond appropriately to the symptoms of patients. Cancer patients often have underlying diseases such as high blood pressure or diabetes. You should be able to receive health care from a professional medical professional while taking the medicine. In recent years, as cases of viral infections such as the flu as well as Corona 19 have increased, there are many cases of acute pneumonia, so it is necessary to check whether professional internal medicine treatment is possible.
The reason why you should find out if neurology treatment is possible is related to the characteristics of cancer patients. Neurology deals with a plethora of diseases involving the entire nervous system of the human body. The characteristics of the disease that neurology is responsible for is that once it occurs, it is difficult to cure it, but there are many cases that permanently reduce the patient’s functional state. Since many cancer patients have neurological diseases, neurological care is also important.
Recently, oriental medicine has been incorporated into treatment for more effective treatment and treatment. Through this, it has the advantage of being able to effectively treat pain or disease and minimize chronic diseases or sequelae of stroke. In addition, it can reduce muscle atrophy and joint weakness in elderly patients who have been bedridden for a long time. To prevent bedsores, acupuncture and cupping therapy can be performed to strengthen muscle strength.
writing. Jeong Joong-ki, CEO of Seonui Nursing Hospital