Routine use of nasogastric tubes does not reduce postoperative nausea and vomiting

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 768-773

  Kerger, Karl Heinz ^a,b   Mascha, Edward ^c   Steinbrecher, Britta ^d   Frietsch, Thomas ^b   Radke, Oliver C ^e,f   Stoecklein, Katrin ^g   Frenkel, Christian ^h   Fritz, Georg ⁱ   Danner, Klaus ^d   Turan, Alparslan ^j,k   Apfel, Christian C ^e  

^a Evangelian Deaconry Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^g VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h Municipal Hospital of Lueneburg   (Germany)

ⁱ Heart Ctr Brandenburg Bernau/Berlin   (Germany)

^j TRAKYA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^k University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; DROPERIDOL; FENTANYL; ONDANSETRON; PROPOFOL; REMIFENTANIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; VOMITING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70149097605     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181aed43b     Document Type: Article

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