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For all the data we have on post-operative nausea and vomiting, surgery's most dreaded side effect continues to confound us. To provide you with more evidence-based guidelines, a group of experts and I reviewed the data published since the last PONV guidelines came out in 2003. Here are the highlights of what we found.
