A Prospective Study of the Effect on Pain by Intraoperative Iv Inj. of Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate in Adeno-Tonsillectomy Patients.

Abstract

One hundred and eighteen patients, age group ranging from 5 to 31 years who underwent tonsillectomy with adenoidectomy when required and were given intravenous injection of dexamethasone. Out of 118 patients 56(47%) were male and 62(53%) were female. 2 (2%) patients had Grade I tonsillitis, Grade II tonsillitis was diagnosed in 52(44%) patients and 64(54%) had Grade III tonsillar enlargement. Postoperatively all the patients were assessed for pain, immediately after out of anesthesia, 2 hours, 4 hours,6 hours,24 hours by five-point faces scale . After 24 hours postoperatively the faces scale was 1 in 99(83%) cases. The study recommends the use of dexamethasone intraoperative to alleviate the pain in patients.