"During our long journey to healing, the hospital became a place we had to frequent. Every time we sit on the infusion chair and look at the dripping potion, time seems to stand still, and in order to reimburse the intravenous infusion a little more, we will choose to be hospitalized. Because of long-term intravenous infusions, our blood vessels are more fragile than ordinary people, and they always show different colors and touches. This kind of experience always makes people want to stay away from the hospital and from the infusion.
The life of cancer patients is full of all kinds of **, which is heartbreaking and familiar to many cancer patients, and many of our physical trauma, psychological distress, and even social difficulties are caused by this.
But ** to continue, then is there any way,To be able to make it a little easier for us at the same time as the cancer?
Yes, that is, turning "infusion" into "injection", which can liberate many friends who have been "suffering from infusion for a long time" from long-term infusion and make them more relaxed.
"Injections" reduce physical harm
In the hospital, have you ever seen an area that is elongated, red, swollen, and painful that gradually appears along the direction of the vein?That is the "pain" that the infusion can bring to us - phlebitis.
In addition to phlebitis, infusions can cause other "physical harm", including those caused by incomplete sterilizationFever, caused by too fast infusionAcute pulmonary edema, as well as excess air entering the veinsAir embolism[1], etc., are all the pain brought to us by the infusion itself.
In addition, long-term intravenous infusion requires the "help" of infusion lines such as PICC, but the presence of PICC can exacerbate the occurrence of venous thromboembolism, leading to a series of adverse consequences, and the detachment of venous thrombus may even lead to pulmonary embolism [6]. This is not an infusion reaction, but it is a problem that is difficult to prevent with infusion.
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Although infusion also has irreplaceable functions, including water and electrolyte replacement after water and electrolyte imbalance, timely blood volume replacement after blood loss, nutrient supply in gastrointestinal malabsorption, and administration of stimulant liquids, which cannot be achieved by other delivery methods. However, due to the above risks, more drug delivery methods are urgently needed to avoid these problems.
At this point, turning "infusion" into "injection" can reduce these risks. Because the injection does not cause phlebitis and does not require PICC catheterization, although it is also possible to have problems such as bleeding or subcutaneous induration, these are easy to prevent and less harmful.
However, some people will worry that turning the infusion into an injection will affect the efficacy
Rest assured, at present, most of the drugs that turn intravenous infusion preparations into subcutaneous preparations will conduct head-to-head clinical trials to prevent subcutaneous preparations from affecting the efficacy and reducing our ** effect, so there is no need to worry about the efficacy. Even some anticancer drugs have lower side effects of subcutaneous preparations than intravenous fluids [3].Let's make it easier.
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"Injections" reduce depression and anxiety
I didn't like the atmosphere and smell of the hospital. Every time I think of going to the hospital for infusion, I feel uncomfortable, taking the number, prescribing medicine, pricking needles, and infusionsAdd up to be locked up in the hospital again for the whole afternoon”。This is the idea that many people who are looking for friends to go to the hospital have.
It is this feeling of "being locked up for an afternoon" in the hospital that has a negative effect on our mood [4], and the longer we spend in the hospital, the more pronounced this effect becomes, causing us to fall into anxiety and depression.
The injection takes much less time than the infusion, which can be completed in 3-5 minutes. Reducing the number of hours of infusion to a few minutes of injections will not only stop patients from anxiety and depression due to "too long a visit to the doctor", but also reduce the time cost for medical workers, allowing them to have time to serve more patients.
In addition, injections will also reduce the financial pressure of some patients. How so?
When intravenous infusion** drugs, doctors will calculate the amount of drugs according to body weight or body surface area, and patients with a larger weight base tend to take more drugs, so if it is an expensive drug, it is difficult for patients with tight family finances to afford each extra drug.
Switching to injections can solve this problemBecause the drug is injected subcutaneously at a fixed dose, there is no need to change the dosage according to the body weight baseIt can help patients to alleviate this part of the economic pressure, and also reduce the anxiety caused by the financial pressure.
"Injections" reduce social stress
Why do injections reduce social stress?
First of all, compared to infusions, injections will reduce the amount of time patients stay in the hospital, which also means that they will have less impact on the patient's daily lifeIt allows patients to devote more time and energy to their families and themselves, and it is easier to get rid of the label of "patient".to reduce your own social stress.
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Secondly, patients who need long-term infusion will choose to have a PICC catheter placed peripherally in order to avoid long-term repeated puncture of the vein. However, there are people around us who think that PICC catheterization is the standard of care for patients, which leads to fear that others will see the catheter and become the focus of discussion, and we are reluctant to engage in normal social activities [5].
At this time, if injections can replace infusions, such problems can be avoided, and at the same time, at the same time,The injection can also choose the belly, thighs and other inconspicuous places to enter the needle, and it will not affect us to wear beautiful skirts!
In short, the change from infusions to injections has brought us a physical, mental, and social lightening experience. Although not all patients have the opportunity to change from infusion to injection, it can be seen that we are putting the humanistic care of cancer patients in a more important position, which is a kind of medical progress.
So the patients in front of the screen,If there was also a medicine for breast cancer, with the option of injections and infusions, what would you choose?