Wound complications with dexamethasone for postoperative nausea and vomiting prophylaxis: A moot point?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 966-968

  Ali Khan, Shariq ^a   Mcdonagh, David L ^a   Gan, Tong J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PLACEBO;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; CELLULITIS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EDITORIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FASCIAL DEHISCENCE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INFECTION RISK; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PAIN; PERINEAL PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STRIDOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ANTIEMETICS; DEXAMETHASONE; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84876750038     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e31828a73de     Document Type: Editorial

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