Use of dexamethasone to reduce postoperative vomiting and pain after pediatric tonsillectomy procedures

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1636-1639

  Samarkandi, Abdulhamid H ^a   Shaikh, Mussarat A ^a   Ahmad, Rana A ^a   Alammar, Ahmed Y ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG SAFETY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TONSILLECTOMY;

ANTIEMETICS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREMEDICATION; SAUDI ARABIA; TONSILLECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10644285711     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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