The twenty-degree reverse-trendelenburg position decreases the incidence and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting after thyroid surgery

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1260-1263

  Tominaga, Kiyo ^a,b   Nakahara, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a TOKUSHIMA PREFECTURAL CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THYROID SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTURE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 33750301199     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000240872.08802.f0     Document Type: Article

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