Preventing Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blind Study

Current Therapeutic Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-12

  Arslan, Mustafa ^a   Çiçek, Ramazan ^b   Kalender, Hülya Üstün ^b   Yilmaz, Hüseyin ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Yüksek lihtisas Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dexamethasone; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Metoclopramide; Postoperative nausea and vomiting; Propofol

Indexed keywords

DEKSAMET; DEXAMETHASONE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; PLACEBO; PROPOFOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HICCUP; HUMAN; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTANESTHESIA CARE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; URINE RETENTION;

EID: 79954513011     PISSN: 0011393X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.curtheres.2011.02.002     Document Type: Article

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