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Anesthesia Alert
The Recipe for Preventing PONV
Elizabeth M. Edel, RN, MN, CNOR, CNS, and John C. Frenzel, MD, MS

There's no magic bullet to eliminate post-op nausea and vomiting, but there's plenty we can do to prevent it. Our anesthesia and nursing teams reduced our incidence of PONV from 18 percent to 3 percent. Here's how we did it.

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