Currently, nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy are a common adverse event affecting quality duration of life patients. Introduction several classes antiemetics correct use various medications in the form combination scheme prophylaxis allow to effectively control these events. However, incidence remains high clinical practice, according surveys doctors underestimate frequency complications ...

This retrospective study was designed to compare the cost of anesthesia in three different groups of patients who received general anesthesia for a diagnostic dilatation and curettage procedure. The analysis included 194 patients, ASA physical status I, II, or III. All patients were outpatients with similar body mass index and age. The three groups were thiopental/isoflurane (n = 13), propofol/...

PURPOSE To examine ondansetron use in pregnancy in the context of other antiemetic use among a large insured United States population of women delivering live births. METHODS We assessed ondansetron and other antiemetic use among pregnant women delivering live births between 2001 and 2015 in 15 data partners contributing data to the Mini-Sentinel Distributed Database. We identified live birth...

BACKGROUND Acute gastroenteritis is characterized by diarrhea, which may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain. OBJECTIVE To review the evidence on the assessment of dehydration, methods of rehydration, and the utility of antiemetics in the child presenting with acute gastroenteritis. DISCUSSION The evidence suggests that the three most useful predictors of 5% or mor...

UNLABELLED We assessed the efficacy of nonpharmacologic techniques to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) by systematic review. These studies included acupuncture, electroacupuncture, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, acupoint stimulation, and acupressure. Of the 24 randomized trials retrieved by a search of articles indexed on the MEDLINE and EMBASE databases (1980-1997...

CONTEXT Gastroenteritis remains a leading cause of childhood morbidity. OBJECTIVE Because prior reviews have focused on isolated symptoms and studies conducted in developing countries, this study focused on interventions commonly considered for use in developed countries. Intervention specific, patient-centered outcomes were selected. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, EMBASE, the Cochrane Database of S...