Ondansetron oral disintegrating tablets for the prevention of postoperative vomiting in children undergoing strabismus surgery

Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 691-694

  Wagner, Deborah S ^a   Gauger, Virginia ^a   Chiravuri, Devi ^a   Faust, Kristin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ondansetron; Pediatrics; Postoperative; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; KETOROLAC; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; ONDANSETRON; PARACETAMOL; SEVOFLURANE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; AGITATION; AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; SIDE EFFECT; STRABISMUS SURGERY; TABLET DISINTEGRATION;

EID: 34848922713     PISSN: 11766336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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