Society for ambulatory anesthesia guidelines for the management of postoperative nausea and vomiting

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1615-1628

  Gan, Tong J ^a   Meyer, Tricia A ^b,c   Apfel, Christian C ^d   Chung, Frances ^e   Davis, Peter J ^f   Habib, Ashraf S ^a   Hooper, Vallire D ^g   Kovac, Anthony L ^h   Kranke, Peter ⁱ   Myles, Paul ^j   Philip, Beverly K ^k   Samsa, Gregory ^a   Sessler, Daniel I ^l   Temo, James ^m   Tramèr, Martin R ⁿ   Vander Kolk, Craig ^o   Watcha, Mehernoor ^p  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Dept of Psychiat and Behav Sci   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^j MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^k BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^l LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^o JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

3 (2 METHOXY 5 TRIFLUOROMETHOXYBENZYLAMINO) 2 PHENYLPIPERIDINE; ALVIMOPAN; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; APREPITANT; BUTYROPHENONE DERIVATIVE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; DIMENHYDRINATE; DOLASETRON MESILATE; DROPERIDOL; EPHEDRINE; GRANISETRON; HALOPERIDOL; NALOXONE; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ONDANSETRON; PALONOSETRON; PERPHENAZINE; PHENOTHIAZINE; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; SCOPOLAMINE; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; STEROID; TROPISETRON; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOFOPITANT;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE VOMITING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT PROLONGATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL RISK; VISUAL DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 36549017689     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000295230.55439.f4     Document Type: Article

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