Lidocaine Spray vs Coughing for Pain Relief During Colposcopy
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2018-03-10
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
Cervical cancer is the third most common genital cancer worldwide. The diagnosis of cervical
cancer is performed with the cervical biopsy which is guided by the colposcopy. The
colposcopy guided cervical biopsy creates pain and several methods have been reported to
overcome the pain related with this procedure. Local anesthetic agent injection into the
cervix has been studied and found to be effective and also, forced coughing was compared with
local anesthetic injection and it is found to be more effective. In fact local injections can
create the pain by itself.However no study compared the effect of forced coughing to local
anesthetic spray. The study aims to evaluate the comparison of forced coughing with local
anesthetic spray with respect to perceived pain during colposcopy guided biopsy.