Journal article
Strategies for postoperative nausea and vomiting.
- Tramèr MR Division of Anaesthesiology, Department APSIC, Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland. martin.tramer@hcuge.ch
- 2004-10-06
Published in:
- Best practice & research. Clinical anaesthesiology. - 2004
Analgesics, Opioid
Antiemetics
Female
Humans
Meta-Analysis as Topic
Pain, Postoperative
Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Risk Factors
English
Significant improvement towards a better control of postoperative nausea and vomiting have been achieved in recent years. Today, we understand better who is likely to vomit or to be nauseous after surgery. Significant amounts of the huge literature on anti-emetic interventions have been systematically reviewed, critically appraised and quantitatively synthesized. Thus, we know what anti-emetic interventions work, and how well they work, and we know their adverse effect profile. We also know which interventions have no worthwhile efficacy. A rational approach to postoperative nausea and vomiting includes three steps: identification of patients at risk, keeping the baseline risk low, and prophylactic administration of anti-emetics in those patients who are most likely to need them. For patients who are identified as high-risk patients, all measurements should be simultaneously initiated (multimodal anti-emesis).
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
- Identifiers
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- DOI 10.1016/j.bpa.2004.05.003
- PMID 15460553
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.ch/global/documents/11085
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