Transdermal scopolamine: An alternative to ondansetron and droperidol for the prevention of postoperative and postdischarge emetic symptoms

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-96

  White, Paul F ^a   Tang, Jun ^b   Song, Dajun ^a   Coleman, Jayne E ^a   Wender, Ronald H ^b   Ogunnaike, Babatunde ^a   Sloninsky, Alexander ^b   Kapu, Rajani ^a   Shah, Mary ^a   Webb, Tom ^b  

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

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CISATRACURIUM; DESFLURANE; DEXAMETHASONE; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; MIDAZOLAM; NEOSTIGMINE; ONDANSETRON; PLACEBO; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; PROPOFOL; ROCURONIUM; SCOPOLAMINE; SEVOFLURANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUFENTANIL; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; OPERATING ROOM; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTLESSNESS; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA; ADOLESCENT; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VOMITING;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIEMETICS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DROPERIDOL; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; ONDANSETRON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SCOPOLAMINE; VOMITING;

EID: 33847663698     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000250364.91567.72     Document Type: Article

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