Ginger root—a new antiemetic The effect of ginger root on postoperative nausea and vomiting after major gynaecological surgery

Anaesthesia

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 1990, Pages 669-671

  Bone, M E ^a   Wilkinson, D J ^a   Young, J R ^a   McNeil, J ^b   Charlton, S ^b  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b WHIPPS CROSS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Surgery; gynaecological; Vomiting; antiemetics

Indexed keywords

METOCLOPRAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GINGER; HIGHER PLANT; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS; ANTIEMETICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMAN; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDDLE AGE; NAUSEA; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TIME FACTORS; VOMITING;

EID: 0025183438     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1990.tb14395.x     Document Type: Article

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