Dexamethasone decreases vomiting by children after tonsillectomy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 913-916

  Splinter, William M ^a   Roberts, David J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; HALOTHANE; MIDAZOLAM; NITROUS OXIDE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TONSILLECTOMY; VOMITING;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHETICS, INHALATION; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; ANTIEMETICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CODEINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HALOTHANE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; NITROUS OXIDE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PLACEBOS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREMEDICATION; PROPOFOL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TONSILLECTOMY; VOMITING;

EID: 0029910480     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199611000-00004     Document Type: Article

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