Archive > Ambulatory Anesthesia 2008
Who Isn't Sick of PONV?
Patients fear it and staff would rather dedicate their resources elsewhere. Can post-op sickness be avoided?
Mark Green, CRNA, MSN
There's no worse feeling than being on the verge of vomiting. That awful sensation occurs more often than your patients — and you — would like. But advancements in medications, anesthesia techniques and the use of multi-modal therapy seem to be making progress in treating post-operative nausea and vomiting. Here's how to identify high-risk patients and tailor care regimens to their needs.
|
Categories:
Keywords:
Anticholinergics; CRNA, MSN; CTZ; CTZ. Low-dose; Costly; FDA; Green, CRNA, MSN; High-risk; Low-dose; MSN; Mark Green, CRNA, MSN; Medications; Metoclopramide; Multi-modal; Nerve; PONV; PONV Several; PONV. High-risk; PONV. Medications; PONV. Patients; PONV. Random; PONV. Resorting; Patients; Random; Repeat-ing; Resorting; Respirations; Stimulation; Studies; abdominal; acetylcholine; act; action; acts; acupressure; acupuncture; add; adding; additional; adequate; administered; administration; admission; advancements; adverse; advocate; agents; airway; altering; anesthesia; anesthetic; antagonist; ... show all keywords
Anticholinergics; CRNA, MSN; CTZ; CTZ. Low-dose; Costly; FDA; Green, CRNA, MSN; High-risk; Low-dose; MSN; Mark Green, CRNA, MSN; Medications; Metoclopramide; Multi-modal; Nerve; PONV; PONV Several; PONV. High-risk; PONV. Medications; PONV. Patients; PONV. Random; PONV. Resorting; Patients; Random; Repeat-ing; Resorting; Respirations; Stimulation; Studies; abdominal; acetylcholine; act; action; acts; acupressure; acupuncture; add; adding; additional; adequate; administered; administration; admission; advancements; adverse; advocate; agents; airway; altering; anesthesia; anesthetic; antagonist; antagonists; antagonize; anti-emetic; anti-nausea; antihistamines; anxiety; anxious; apparatus; appears; approach; area; arrive; awful; begins; benefit; block; blocked; blood-brain; blurred; bowel; box; brain; breath; breathing; called; cancer; cardiac; care; case; caused; center; cerebral; chain; chance; chemical; chemoreceptor; chemotherapeutic; chest; choice; clammy; closed-angle; closes; combating; combination; common; compared; complete; complex; concern; concerns; contents; continue; contract; contraindicated; control; controlled; controversial; cost-effective; costly; craniotomy; decreases; delayed; desflurane; designed; determined; development; dexamethasone; diaphragm; direction; directly; disposal; dopamine; dose; doses; dreaded; droperidol; dropped; drugs; dry; duodenum; dysrhythmia; effect; effective; effectiveness; effects; efficacy; eliminating; empty; emptying; end; entering; epinephrine; esophagus; event; exit; expect; expensive; extra-pyramidal; facilities; fear; feeling; female; finger-widths; forced; forcefully; form; fourth; gastric; gastroesophageal; gastrointestinal; general; glands; greatly; high; high-risk; higher; highly; hindbrain; histamine; history; hold; hospital; identified; identify; important; impulses; incidence; include; increase; increases; increasing; induction; inhalational; inhibitors; initiate; initiation; integral; interact; interaction; intraocular; intravenous; involved; involves; ketorolac; laparotomy; lead; leading; length; level; lies; limited; limiting; localized; located; lower; main; mainstay; maintain; major; making; malignant; managing; mechanical; mechanisms; medication; medulla; mentioned; minimize; modalities; motion; mouth; multi-modal; muscle; nasogastric; nausea; nerve; nerves; neuroleptic; neuronal; neurotransmitters; newest; nitrous; noxious; occurs; offset; ondansetron; one's; opening; opioid; orogastric; oversedation; oxide; pain; parts; pathways; patients; percent; perioperatve; personnel; physiological; physiology; play; plays; point; poorly; popular; post-op; post-operative; pressure; prevent; previously; procedure; producing; progress; promotes; propofol; prove; providers; queasy; radius; rate; re-enter; received; receiving; receptor; reducing; reduction; regimens; relaxants; repeating; report; requirements; resides; responsibility; result; retention; reversal; reverse; risk; road; role; salivary; sedative; sends; sensation; serotonin; serves; sevoflurane; shown; sickness; side; signal; sites; small; sphincter; starts; stimulates; stimulation; stomach; studies; suffer; suffered; support; surgical; surgical-related; sweat; symptoms; synergistic; system; tailor; technique; techniques; tendency; terms; therapy; times; tone; total; tract; travel; treat; treating; treatment; trigger; tube; tubes; type; typically; ulna; ultimately; uneasy; unplanned; urinary; vagus; vascular; verge; vestibular; vision; vomiting; wall; wear; widely; widespread; worse; wrist; wristband; zone
© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.
