Worldwide, more than 230 million major surgical procedures are performed each year. For these patients, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are among the most frequently observed adverse events associated with the provision of general anaesthesia. It is distressing to patients and impairs the quality of recovery as judged by the patients and anaesthesiologists alike. 3 Our patients obvious...

purpose: to compare the efficacy of granisetron, metoclopramide and dexamethasone in prevention of post operative nausea and vomiting (ponv) after cataract surgery. methods: sixty patients scheduled for cataract surgery with age between 45 to 80 years and with asa class i & ii were enrolled in this clinical trial. the patients were randomly allocated to three 20- person groups. the induction of...

BACKGROUND Whether nitrous oxide (N(2)O) increases the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after laparoscopic gynecologic surgery is still controversial, which may be due to the administration of different concentrations of inspired N(2)O. We investigated whether N(2)O results in a dose-response increase in PONV. METHODS Patients undergoing gynecologic laparoscopic surgery w...

Editor,—I read Harmon and colleagues’ article on the use of acupressure in the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) with great interest.1 A cheap (and presumably re-usable) device without side effects and with such demonstrable efficacy must surely inspire great enthusiasm, and I look forward to seeing further such research. However, I was somewhat concerned by the process by ...

Correspondence Adjuncts to caudal blockade in children Editor—We read with great interest the editorial by Lön-nqvist 1 regarding caudal additives. The author gives an excellent description of the chronological development of caudal adjuncts. Nevertheless, we were somewhat surprised by his affirmations regarding caudal neostigmine. The author claims that two studies are proof enough to show tha...

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is the second most common complaint in postoperative period especially high risk surgeries like laparoscopic cholelithiasis. Many pharmacological strategies has been used for its prevention as PONV may cause adverse effects. Drugs granisetron dexamethasone alone combination prophylaxis of PONV. We observed adequacy safety these drugs by injecting (40mcg/...