Evelina Pankiv, Alfonso E Albornoz, Jessica Nghiem, Maria-Alexandra Petre, Marina Englesakis, Mehwish Rana, Conor Mc Donnell, Jason Hayes, Kazuyoshi Aoyama
PURPOSE: Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is common in pediatric patients undergoing general anesthesia, and clinicians seek prophylactic interventions to prevent its ill effects on patients as well as its ramifications on perioperative care. We sought to assess the body of evidence around prophylactic strategies, both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic, targeting pediatric PONV. SOURCE: We searched MEDLINE, MEDLINE ePubs Ahead of Print and In-Process Citations, Embase Classic+Embase, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane CENTRAL (via the Ovid platform), Scopus (Elsevier), Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), ClinicalTrials...
October 5, 2023: Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia