PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Eric Bloomfield
AU  - Mark Hilberman
AU  - Phillip Brown
AU  - Hilda Noe
AU  - John Gaydos
AU  - Gail Miller
AU  - Duane Sherrill
AU  - George Williams
TI  - Postoperative nausea and vomiting
DP  - 1988 Nov 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 549--552
VI  - 55
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/6/549.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/55/6/549.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1988 Nov 01; 55
AB  - Postoperative nausea and vomiting have been associated with the use of nitrous oxide and, in some studies, with isoflurane. Sufentanil, a new synthetic narcotic with a duration as long as fentanyl, was studied with regard to postoperative nausea and vomiting. A total of 63 patients undergoing extra-abdominal procedures (excluding thoracotomies and intracranial, ophthalmologic, and middle-ear surgery) was studied and randomly divided into four groups: Group A, sufentanil/N2O/O2 with 0.25% isoflurane; Group B, O2/N2O/isoflurane; Group C, O2/isoflurane/sufentanil; Group D, O2/isoflurane. Patients with a history of postoperative nausea and vomiting were excluded. The incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting was observed in the recovery room. The overall incidence of nausea was 25% and of vomiting 9.5%; differences between techniques were not statistically significant.