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  • Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is the phenomenon of nausea, vomiting, or retching experienced by a patient in the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU)...
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    The feeling that one is about to vomit is called nausea; it often precedes, but does not always lead to vomiting. Impairment due to alcohol or anesthesia...
    41 KB (4,160 words) - 02:10, 11 May 2024
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    Nausea is a diffuse sensation of unease and discomfort, sometimes perceived as an urge to vomit. While not painful, it can be a debilitating symptom if...
    30 KB (3,081 words) - 07:13, 8 May 2024
  • called nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP), is a symptom of pregnancy that involves nausea or vomiting. Despite the name, nausea or vomiting can occur...
    26 KB (2,633 words) - 05:01, 20 May 2024
  • Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common side-effect of many cancer treatments. Nausea and vomiting are two of the most feared cancer...
    22 KB (2,404 words) - 02:48, 4 September 2023
  • Antiemetic (redirect from Anti-nausea)
    against vomiting and nausea. Antiemetics are typically used to treat motion sickness and the side effects of opioid analgesics, general anaesthetics, and chemotherapy...
    13 KB (1,419 words) - 11:16, 9 April 2024
  • breathing), coughing, xerostomia (dry mouth), nausea and vomiting, constipation, fever, delirium, and excessive oral and pharyngeal secretions ("Death Rattle")...
    97 KB (11,684 words) - 13:51, 16 May 2024
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    brand name Zofran among others, is a medication used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy, migraines or surgery...
    34 KB (3,246 words) - 08:28, 20 May 2024
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    regularly to prevent postoperative nausea and vomiting, manage pain (potentially reduce the amount of pain medications needed), and to help reduce the amount of...
    68 KB (5,993 words) - 03:20, 20 May 2024
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    others, is a dopamine antagonist medication which is used to treat nausea and vomiting and certain gastrointestinal problems like gastroparesis (delayed gastric...
    60 KB (5,539 words) - 15:26, 19 May 2024
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    Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (e.g. dronabinol) Vomiting is due to gastric stasis (large volume vomiting, brief nausea relieved by vomiting, oesophageal reflux, epigastric...
    221 KB (19,665 words) - 02:56, 12 May 2024
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    prevent the nausea and vomiting that accompanies chemotherapy, typically for cancer. With the exception of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, the patho-physiological...
    48 KB (5,337 words) - 19:07, 17 March 2024
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    In humans, the vomiting response may be preceded by an unpleasant sensation termed nausea, but nausea may also occur without vomiting. The central nervous...
    42 KB (4,803 words) - 19:10, 2 May 2024
  • of pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6) and doxylamine succinate. It is generally used for nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (morning sickness); even though...
    25 KB (2,768 words) - 22:34, 8 May 2023
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    Symptoms include nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, feeling full soon after beginning to eat (early satiety), abdominal bloating, and heartburn. The most...
    59 KB (6,278 words) - 19:45, 21 May 2024
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    an antiemetic and antipsychotic medication used at lower doses intravenously to prevent and treat postoperative nausea and vomiting; and at higher doses...
    40 KB (3,404 words) - 05:47, 12 May 2024
  • Exercise-induced nausea is a feeling of sickness or vomiting which can occur shortly after exercise has stopped as well as during exercise itself. It...
    3 KB (275 words) - 16:03, 28 December 2021
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    is a medication used for stomach and esophageal problems. It is commonly used to treat and prevent nausea and vomiting, to help with emptying of the stomach...
    43 KB (3,454 words) - 23:03, 26 April 2024
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    has indicated that cannabis might reduce nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy and reduce chronic pain and muscle spasms. Regarding non-inhaled cannabis...
    108 KB (9,930 words) - 22:38, 15 April 2024
  • Retching (category Vomiting)
    stomach and esophagus without vomiting. It can be caused by bad smells or choking, or by withdrawal from certain medications, or after vomiting has completed...
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