[The role of nursing in percutaneous cervical cordotomy in the control of oncologic pain].
Oncological pain is usually progressive and enabling. One third of the patients under treatment and two thirds of the patients with advanced cancer refer to pain. Generally treatment starts with non-opioids analgesic medicines and other drugs, passing to opioids with a progressive increase of the doses and neurosurgical procedures when recommended. Percutaneous cervical cordotomy is a neurosurgery procedure to treat unilateral cancer pain, especially in extremities, which gives immediate relief and low morbidity. The nursing professional plays an indispensable role in the effectiveness of this treatment. For this reason the author decide to report on this experience.
Iksilara
Maria Cecília
MC
Clínica da Dor, Hospital Nove de Julho de São Paulo, UNIFESP.
D002818:Cordotomy / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D009333:Neck; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing*