1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiotherapy & Oncology, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan
2Senior Professor, Dept. of Anaesthesiology, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan
3Assistant Professor, Radiological Physics, Dept. of Radiotherapy, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan
4Junior Resident, Dept. of Radiotherapy & Oncology, RNT Medical College, Udaipur, Rajasthan
*Corresponding Author: Email: drnarendra_rathore@yahoo.com
Online published on 14 October, 2017.
To know the complications of conscious sedation in cervical cancer patients treated with cobalt (CO60) based Intracavitary brachytherapy (ICRT) and to assess pain on visual analogue scale (VAS).
Cobalt intracavitary brachytherapy application was performed with conscious sedation in 40 carcinoma cervix patients and post-procedural pain was assessed with VAS at every 30 minutes interval for six hours along with other complications.
Pain was well controlled (mean VAS 4.5) in all patients with maximum VAS 10 and tramodol was received as rescue analgesic. Common complication was grade 1 & 2 bradycardia in 8 patients; and grade 1 hypertension in 6 applications; no patients found Gr 3 or 4 hypertension, Hypotension in 11 Patients (Gr1 in 7).
Conscious sedation is a fast and safe option to perform intracavitary brachytherapy applications (Cobalt 60) in the patients of cervix cancer.
Intracavitary Brachytherapy, Conscious Sedation, Cervix Cancer
