A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the antiemetic effects of midazolam on postoperative nausea and vomiting in women undergoing laparoscopic gynecologic surgery

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1633-1637

  Fujii, Yoshitaka ^a   Itakura, Michiyo ^b  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Ushiku Aiwa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antiemetics; Complications; Gynecologic laparoscopic surgery; Midazolam; Nausea; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; VECURONIUM;

ADULT; ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MYOMECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

ADULT; ANTIEMETICS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; JAPAN; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDAZOLAM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958196665     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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