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Traditional Chinese acupuncture: a potentially useful antiemetic?
Two consecutive studies were undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of acupuncture as an antiemetic used in addition to premedication with opioids in patients undergoing minor gynaecological operations. In the first study 25 of the 50 patients underwent acupuncture immediately after premedication with 100 mg meptazinol, the rest receiving the drug alone, and in the second 75 patients were all...
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OBJECTIVE Postoperative vomiting (POV) is one of the most common problems following general anaesthesia, and many factors, either solely or in combination, may play a role in aetiology. Acupuncture is a technique that the World Health Organization has accepted as a complementary treatment. This study presents our experience with acupuncture for POV treatment in a study of paediatric tonsillecto...
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Daniel A. Dansak, M.D., is a practicing psychiatrist at the University of Southern Alabama in Mobile. In 1977, a 26-year-old male cancer patient from New Mexico approached the states legislature with an astounding proposal: legalize marijuana for cancer patients. His reason: smoking marijuana reduced the nausea and vomiting side effects of the therapeutic drugs given by doctors to combat his me...
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BACKGROUND Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) occurs in up to 63-84% of patients after thyroid surgery. This study aims to assess the effects of using a capsicum plaster to reduce PONV after thyroid surgery at either the Chinese acupuncture point (acupoint) Pericardium 6 (P6) or Korean hand acupuncture point K-D2. METHODS One-hundred eighty-four patients who underwent thyroid surgery we...
متن کاملIncreased vomiting induced by an antiemetic drug.
A case of progressive vomiting in a boy aged 5 months is reported. Vomiting was secondary to an obstruction in the antrum of the stomach caused by a mass consisting of alginate.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.296.6615.135-a