Precautions before cesarean section
Release time : 03/16/2025 09:30:01
Once the cut is made, it's all over.
At present, many people are still very confident about cesarean section, and even think that cesarean section is very safe and safer than natural birth.
In fact, cesarean section is not a panacea and will not produce any side effects.
Taking precautions before cesarean section will reduce the risk of cesarean section and welcome the arrival of new life with peace of mind.
Precautions before Caesarean section On the night before Caesarean section, pregnant women were required to be admitted to the hospital to prepare for the next day's Caesarean section. So what should pregnant women pay attention to this night? 1. Pregnant women preparing for caesarean section should follow the doctor's instructions and do some necessary examinations in a timely manner, such as B-ultrasound and fetal heart rate monitoring, so as to promptly understand the safety status of the fetus in the uterus.
Don't leave the ward casually, because the nurse may prepare you for blood draw, skin preparation, blood matching, etc. at any time.
2. You need to sign the surgery and anesthesia consent form before surgery! Because any type of surgery will have surgical complications, such as anesthesia accidents, intraoperative bleeding, organ damage, poor wound healing, etc.
3. It is not advisable to apply nail polish and makeup before surgery! Because after applying makeup and nail polish, if severe bleeding shock occurs, it is not conducive for doctors to observe and judge the degree of shock through the color of the face and nail bed (nails), which may delay the condition.
4. It is not advisable to wear ornaments during surgery.
Bring some ornaments if you are rescued, they may be lost in panic.
5. Clean the abdomen and vulva well, and clean those with deep umbilical fossa in advance.
6. After giving birth, pregnant women must be transferred to the postpartum ward or ward. Family members need to organize their personal belongings in advance in preparation for the transfer of the bed and carry valuables with them.
Before surgery, nurses will prepare you as follows: 1. Blood transfusion: Take 2 to 3 ml of venous blood for crossmatching purposes if needed during the operation.
2. Preparation: Use a razor to shave off hair on the abdomen, waist, and other areas.
3. Muscle injections of anti-bleeding agents.
4. Place a urinary catheter.
5. Initial disinfection of abdominal skin.
What should I pay attention to before caesarean section? Eight hours of fasting and four hours of water deprivation are required before a cesarean section.
Why should I fast before cesarean section? The most serious complications of anesthesia are vomiting and reflux, which causes gastric contents to be mistakenly inhaled into the trachea, causing mechanical airway obstruction, and leading to the patient's death.
Therefore, it is very important for expectant mothers preparing for cesarean section to fast before surgery. It is usually necessary for expectant mothers to ban eating water and drinks 4 hours before surgery to prevent accidents during surgery.
Dinner should be light on the eve of surgery. Before surgery, fasting for 8 hours and drinking for 4 hours is routinely performed.
Don't eat after 12 midnight to ensure a clean bowel and reduce intra-operative infections.
What should I do if I feel nervous before a C-section? Whether it is a cesarean section or other surgery, it is very common for patients to experience stress.
What should pregnant women do to relieve nervousness before cesarean section? Almost all expectant mothers and their families experience significant psychological changes before surgery.
This is because cesarean sections often involve urgent onset, severe pain, and numerous complications that can cause the patient to experience strong feelings of life versus death and fear.
According to the survey, 60% of the patients have doubts about the surgery.
More than 50% are very afraid of surgery.
31% to 38% were worried that surgery would harm their health or endanger their lives.
17% had a fear of anesthesia.
12% were concerned about pain and vomiting after surgery, which was unbearable.
The most common psychological reaction of pregnant women to surgery is anxiety caused by fear.
As the operation period approaches, the psychological burden on expectant mothers is increasing day by day, resulting in complex psychological changes that both hope for early operation and attempt to give up the operation.
First of all, pre-operative communication can allow the beauty seeker to be psychologically prepared for the effect of the operation and the entire operation process, increase trust in the doctor, and also be confident that the operation will be a success.
Second, the preparation before the operation requires a special person to accompany them and bring them into the operating room in advance to adapt to the environment, rather than going on stage for surgery as soon as you enter the operating room.
Third, in fact, preoperative tension cannot be self-controlled. The more you want to control it, the more nervous you will be. Therefore, it is wrong for some doctors to ask beauty seekers to control it and not to be nervous.
However, tension is manageable; by relaxing, you can naturally forget about your nerves and redirect your attention.
Fourth, everyone will have varying degrees of tension before surgery, and mild tension will not affect the surgery.
If you feel nervous when undergoing an operation, take deep breaths slowly. Most of the time, this can be adjusted.
Fifth, the doctor's gentle operation during the operation will reduce pain and tension.
How to Choose the Time for cesarean section? Currently, for pregnant women with indications for cesarean section, doctors will determine the timing of the cesarean section based on factors such as the maturity of the placenta and the size of the fetus.
For emergencies such as fetal hypoxia, toxemia of pregnancy, diabetes, and difficult labor requiring cesarean section, immediate surgery is necessary.
The doctor mentioned that the astrological lunar calendar, child's reading problems, and other issues are not indications for cesarean section. Parents should not demand cesarean section based on these circumstances.
What are the risks of a cesarean section? Although today's medical advancements have made cesarean sections relatively safe, some potential hazards cannot be overlooked.
1. The surgical approach involves incising through the abdominal wall to the uterine walls, covering a total of seven layers. Each layer is surrounded by blood vessels, and the hemorrhage during a cesarean section is significantly more than that during vaginal birth.
II. There are also risks such as pulmonary embolism, fat necrosis in wounds, and infection of wounds present.
Surgical trauma and bleeding increase the likelihood of infection.
III. There is also the risk of accidents during anesthesia.
4. For the fetus, the probability of amniotic fluid aspiration, pulmonary hyaline membrane, wet lung, neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, etc. delivered during surgery is higher than that of natural delivery.
5. During delivery, the fetus is not compressed vaginal, which is not conducive to the establishment of the neonatal respiratory system and may easily lead to suffocation, wet lungs, aspiration of amniotic fluid, atelectasis and lung hyaline membrane disease.
6. After the operation, there is a large scar. If you get pregnant again, there is a risk of uterine rupture.
What are the indications for cesarean section? Cesarean section is not a surgery that can be performed at will, nor is it a procedure with no benefit.
There are also strict medical regulations regarding whether to undergo a cesarean section.
Judging from the requirements of medical science, there are strict clinical regulations on cesarean section. For example, if the mother is over 35 years old and the height is less than 150 cm, the head of the fetus is too large and the mother's pelvis is too small or the birth canal is narrow, resulting in the mother's inability to give birth naturally, and fetal distress due to various reasons.
At the same time, it should be pointed out that the safety of caesarean section is only relatively speaking, which will bring disadvantages to pregnant women's postpartum health.
Therefore, whether it is the doctor or the pregnant woman herself and her family members, they must be cautious and not arbitrary when choosing cesarean section.
The indications for caesarean section can be roughly divided into two categories: first, endangering the fetus. 1. Blood oxygen content decreases.
2. The fetal heart rate is too low or too high.
Uterine abnormality: Uterus undersized, scarred uterus, or uterine deformities.
4. Multiple pregnancy. 5. Cervical abnormality: cervical opening is too loose.
Pregnant women suffer from active genital herpes infection.
6. Placental and Umbilical Anomalies: Placenta Previa.
Placental rapture.
7. Abnormal development 8. Huge baby and precious baby 2. Danger to pregnant women 1. Disproportionately head and pelvis (the fetal head is too large and cannot pass through the pelvis).
2. Labor is too long.
(If the second stage of labor is prolonged), 3. Incorrect fetal position: breech position.
Horizontal position.
4. Elderly pregnant women (older than 40 years old) 5. Pregnant women are in critical condition (toxemia of pregnancy, preeclampsia, eclampsia, hypertension).
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In cases of discomfort, it is advisable to seek medical attention immediately. The diagnosis and treatment should be based on the medical examinations conducted in person by a professional physician.