Janaki, MG;
Nirmala, S;
Kadam, AR;
Ramesh, BS;
Sunitha, KS;
(2008)
Epidural analgesia during brachytherapy for cervical cancer patients.
Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
, 4
(2)
60 - 63.
10.4103/0973-1482.40825.
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Abstract
Aims: To find out the efficacy of epidural analgesia in providing continuous pain relief for patients undergoing brachytherapy for cervical cancer.Settings: Teaching Hospital. Design: Retrospective Study.Materials and Methods: A total of 152 patients of cervical cancer received epidural analgesia during 18 to 21 hours of pelvic brachytherapy. Epidural top up was given using 60-100 g of buprenorphine every 08-10 hrs. Additional top up or systemic analgesics were given for breakthrough pain. Results: Majority of patients 119 out of 152 received epidural top up twice during their stay in the brachytherapy ward. Only 20 out of 152 needed additional analgesics. Conclusions: Epidural analgesia is safe and provides satisfactory pain relief during brachytherapy and makes patients stay more comfortable.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Epidural analgesia during brachytherapy for cervical cancer patients |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.4103/0973-1482.40825 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1482.40825 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Publication made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. This provides the non-exclusive right to copy, distribute, or transmit and adapt the Work. |
| Keywords: | analgesia, brachytherapy, epidural |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1313135 |
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