Optimal timing of acustimulation for antiemetic prophylaxis as an adjunct to ondansetron in patients undergoing plastic surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 367-372

  White, Paul F ^a   Hamza, Mohamed A ^a   Recart, Alejandro ^a   Coleman, Jayne E ^a   Macaluso, Amy R ^a   Cox, Lyndsey ^a   Jaffer, Omar ^a   Song, Dajun ^a   Rohrich, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; MORPHINE; NEOSTIGMINE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ANESTHETIC EQUIPMENT; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CHRONOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; VERBAL RATING SCALE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANTIEMETICS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONDANSETRON; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 12844266803     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000144425.16116.0A     Document Type: Article

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