TITLE:
Progress of Comprehensive Nursing on the Prevention of Postoperative DVT of Gynecologic Tumor
AUTHORS:
Shaohua Wang, Jianli Jiang, Xiaobing Lu
KEYWORDS:
Deep Vein Thrombosis, Tumor, Nursing, Prevention of DVT
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Reproductive Sciences,
Vol.8 No.4,
October
16,
2020
ABSTRACT: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is the second reason of death due to tumor. In order to find more effective methods for prevention of DVT due to gynecologic tumor, the advances of study and practice in this aspect should be summarized. As an important and effective measure for prevention of DVT, the comprehensive nursing is to be analyzed carefully. Lots of practices show that proper nursing measures can prevent effectively the occurrence of postoperative DVT. Virchow thought that DVT is caused by three factors: injury of venous wall, slowed blood flow and hypercoagulability. Thus, the prevention measures are presented on the factors such as application of sequential decompression elastic socks, intraoperative intervention etc. Clinical nursing pathway is shown to be very effective method recently. More effective measures and related facilities for prevention of DVT should be built in the future. Physical and psychological methods should be combined in the nursing of DVT.