Risk Factors for Postoperative Nausea/Vomiting

Khon Kaen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting

Treatments: Procedure: General anesthesia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02944942

HE571413

Details and patient eligibility

About

General anesthetic technique plays a key role in most surgical procedures. This technique has some complications especially postoperative nausea/vomiting (PONV). This complication can lead to serious problems. Department of Anesthesiology has developed and implemented a PONV prophylaxis guideline for high risk PONV patients but PONV still remains.

Full description

Objective: To identify risk factors for PONV after implementation of PONV prophylaxis guideline.

Methods: This will be a retrospective analytic study. Relevant clinical data from medical records of adult patients undergoing general anesthesia in Srinagarind Hospital from November 2014 to February 2015 will be used to identify relevant risk factors.

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ASA classification I-III

Exclusion criteria

• Incomplete or illegible medical records
• Patients who underwent cardio-thoracic surgery
• Patient who had chronic treatment with antiemetic drugs

Trial design

400 participants in 1 patient group

Postoperative nausea and vomiting

Description:

Group 1: Patients undergoing general anesthesia with postoperative nausea and vomiting Group 2: Patients undergoing general anesthesia without postoperative nausea and vomiting

Treatment:

Procedure: General anesthesia