abstract background: chemotherapy- induced nausea and vomiting (cinv) occur frequently causing problems with an unacceptably high incidence that significantly affect patients' daily functioning and health-related quality of life. the present study was aimed to compare acute cinv for granisetron as 5-ht3 receptor antagonist and metoclopramide in the patients receiving chemotherapeutic regimens i...

this study is a correlation research carried out in order to determine pregnant women's attitude towards the   mothering role and its relationship to the onset and duration of nausea and vomiting .   this study included 130 women who were patients , at health treatment centers in the city of sari had   previous delivery and had no known physical or psychological illness at the time of the ...

• Vomiting=Emesis • Drugs used to prevent/treat nausea and vomiting=anti‐emetics • N & V can be associated with a variety of clinical conditions and drugs. This discussion will focus on Chemotherapy Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV) • Approximately 70‐80% of all cancer patients receiving chemotherapy experience nausea and vomiting. Patients often experience more nausea than vomiting. Pathophys...

Chemotherapy-induced nausea is one of the most distressing symptoms reported by patients undergoing treatment, and even with the introduction of newer antiemetics such as ondansetron and aprepitant, nausea remains problematic in the clinic. Indeed, when acute nausea is not properly managed, the cues of the clinic can become associated with this distressing symptom resulting in anticipatory naus...

Nausea is associated with significant morbidity, and there is a wide range in the propensity of individuals to experience nausea. The neural basis of the heterogeneity in nausea susceptibility is poorly understood. Our previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study in healthy adults showed that a visual motion stimulus caused activation in the right MT+/V5 area, and that increased ...

cisplatin is an effective chemotherapeutics against a wide range of cancers. however, it causes significant nausea and vomiting which limit its usefulness. in the present study, the effects of methanolic root extract of pluchea lanceolata (dc.) c. b. clarke , asteraceae ( mpl ) was investigated against cisplatin-induced nausea using a rat pica model. in rat pica model, rats react to cisplatin (...

background: post-operative nausea and vomiting (ponv) following surgical operations requiring general anesthesia are common and distressing. the incidence of ponv may be as high as 70% during the first 24 hrs of tonsillectomy.   objective: this study determines the effects of intraoperative well-hydration on postoperative nausea and vomiting.   methods: 90 asa i patients with age of 6-12 years ...