After surgery, you have one goal in mind for your patients: fast, comfortable healing. Unfortunately, this isn't always easy--and there can be plenty of hiccups along the way. The good news is that, with tools like a postoperative bra, healing can be a quicker and easier journey for your patients.
It is said that pain after a thoracotomy is among the most severe post-surgery pains--and it's likely that your patients would agree. You know just how much of an obstacle to healing pain can be, bringing obstacles and possible complications, but luckily, there are answers. With respiratory splinting, managing post-thoracotomy pain is easier than ever.
You're a professional. You're likely interested in the medical field and all of the beneficial and, frankly, kind of amazing advances that it makes--but at the end of the day, what's most important to you is knowing how these advances can help your patients get healthy quicker and more comfortably. That's just what one study set out to prove--and the results about postoperative bras could revolutionize healing for cardiac patients.
After surgery, healing is the top priority, and it has to be a team effort between mind and body. However, sometimes the body needs a little help, and that's where a postoperative bra comes in.
Postoperative bras are garments created to offer support and comfort to a patient's entire chest after surgery--whether it's heart surgery, a mastectomy, or cosmetic reconstruction. This means that all postoperative bras are a little bit different; they must meet the varying needs of a wide variety of patients. However, the key to using a postoperative bra to speed healing and make a patient comfortable is to find the right garment for each patient's unique needs and recovery goals.
Our Postoperative Bra experts know how important it is to match the right garment to the right patient. Here's a quick look at what to consider!
Although science and medicine have become incredibly sophisticated in recent years, some things haven't changed: heart surgeries remain invasive and difficult to recover from. Luckily, until technology advances enough to change that, devices like Heart Hugger are here to minimize the risk of Sternal Dehiscence and improve healing.
The healing process is an incredibly important part of the heart surgery journey--however, the unfortunate truth is that the healing process isn't always comfortable. The wound from the operation can make exercising, moving, coughing, and even breathing extremely uncomfortable for your patients, which, in turn, makes it more difficult for them to follow your instructions for quick and strong healing. There is also the danger of Sternal Dehiscence to contend with--a complication as formidable as it is infamous. To solve all of these problems at once and speed up the healing process, you need sternum support.
When it comes to healing after heart surgery, sternum stabilization is the name of the game for your patients. Stabilizing and protecting the area of the incision, as well as the chest and lungs, is critical for quick, comfortable healing--but it's a multiple-step process. Today, our experts want to highlight three of the most important steps toward sternum stabilization.
We've all heard it before: "life's a journey, not a destination." While that may be true in life, there are some things that are defined by the destination and not the journey. For example, what about a trip to the grocery store? Chances are, you're not too focused on the journey itself; it's a combination of roads you've driven a thousand times before, stoplights you know like the back of your hand, and turns you could make with your eyes closed (although that's not recommended). In this case, most of us are more concerned with the destination. What do we need at the store? Will it be crowded? How fast can we get the job done? It's true: there are many things in life where destination is emphasized over journey--and heart surgery is one of them.
Chest pain is a serious condition. There are many different types of chest pain, all of them caused by different things and treated in different ways, and one particularly troublesome type of chest pain is pleuritic chest pain. Not only does it cause ongoing discomfort and make everyday activities, even breathing, a chore--it can also be a sign of something more serious, and, in some cases, it can lead to serious complications. Luckily, there is a solution: Respiratory Splinting with the Heart Hugger device.
As we know, properly stabilizing the chest after injury or surgery is incredibly important. This is because of how important the chest itself is; without strong support and protection, everything from breathing to a normal heart rate can be affected, and all of it comes at a steep price to the patient's comfort and healing progress. Yes, sternum stabilization is crucial--but when a patient has broken ribs, sternum stabilization becomes even more important.
What do you think of when you hear the word "healing?" It is a term that has countless positive connotations throughout our society. To be healed is to be cured of some pain, illness, or problem. To be healed is to feel strong and whole again. To be healed is to place a bandage over the wounds of the mind and the body--a bandage which, though it may work slowly and steadily, has the power to repair what has been broken. Of course, "healing" also has more literal meanings, the definitions that conjure up images of white lab coats, bottles of antibiotics, and glimmering medical utensils. However, no matter what comes to mind when you think about healing, the truth is that healing of all kinds can often use a helping hand.
