Supplemental oxygen reduces the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting

Anesthesiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1246-1252

  Greif, Robert ^a,b   Laciny, Sonja ^a,b   Rapf, Brigitta ^b   Hickle, Randy S ^a,b,d   Sessler, Daniel I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Donauspital SMZO ^*  (Austria)

^c Apotheus Laboratories Ltd   (United States)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Antiemetics; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; FENTANYL; ISOFLURANE; LORMETAZEPAM; OXYGEN; RANITIDINE; VECURONIUM;

ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; OXYGEN BREATHING; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOMITING;

AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; COLON; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RECTUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032703387     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199911000-00014     Document Type: Article

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