Pretreatment of Patients Requiring Oral Contrast Abdominal Computed Tomography With Antiemetics: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Efficacy

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 528-533

  Garra, Gregory ^a   Singer, Adam J ^a   Bamber, Danny ^a   Chohan, Jasmine ^a   Troxell, Regina ^a   Thode Jr , Henry C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE; MEGLUMINE DIATRIZOATE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; ONDANSETRON; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIEMETICS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; ONDANSETRON; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING;

EID: 62349138776     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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