Preoperative single-dose intravenous dexamethasone during ambulatory surgery: Update around the benefit versus risk

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 682-686

  Jakobsson, Jan ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ambulatory anesthesia; dexamethasone; glucocorticoids; postoperative pain

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; INDOMETACIN; ONDANSETRON; OXYCODONE; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE;

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITY; BLEEDING; BREAST SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; FATIGUE; HALLUX VALGUS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREMEDICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TONSILLECTOMY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANTIEMETICS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; DEXAMETHASONE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649481340     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e32833ff302     Document Type: Review

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