Beyond Nausea & Vomiting: Monitoring Less Common Reactions To High Dose BCNU
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Less costly drugs work for nausea, vomiting.
iting (PONV) at an annual cost of several hundred million dollars, preventing this common complication is a priority. A new study by Christian Apfel, MD, and his colleagues provides the first comprehensive head-to-head comparison of common treatments for preventing PONV. Their findings, published in the June 10 New England Journal of Medicine, show that drugs costing a dollar or two per dose, s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1083-8791
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2009.12.137