Reduction of postoperative nausea and vomiting by dimenhydrinate suppositories after strabismus surgery in children

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-314

  Welters, Ingeborg D ^a   Menges, Thilo ^a   Gräf, Michael ^a   Beikirch, Christina ^a   Menzebach, Axel ^a   Hempelmann, Gunter ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMENHYDRINATE; HALOTHANE; MIDAZOLAM; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; STRABISMUS SURGERY;

EID: 0033961067     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200002000-00013     Document Type: Article

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