Minimizing Nausea and Vomiting During Spinals for CS

Summary

In parturients undergoing Cesarean section under spinal anesthesia, co-loading of 1 liter of crystalloids, with placing the spinal, along with administering a phenylephrine infusion and glycopyrrolate, enables placing a spinal with minimal perioperative nausea and vomiting and good intra and post-operative pain relief.

Timeline

Start

2015-05-15

Primary completion

2016-11-30

Completion

2016-11-30

Publications

• Background Carvalho B, Cohen SE, Lipman SS, Fuller A, Mathusamy AD, Macario A. Patient preferences for anesthesia outcomes associated with cesarean delivery. Anesth Analg. 2005 Oct;101(4):1182-1187. doi: 10.1213/01.ane.0000167774.36833.99.
• Background Abouleish EI, Rashid S, Haque S, Giezentanner A, Joynton P, Chuang AZ. Ondansetron versus placebo for the control of nausea and vomiting during Caesarean section under spinal anaesthesia. Anaesthesia. 1999 May;54(5):479-82. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.00798.x.
• Background Harmon D, Ryan M, Kelly A, Bowen M. Acupressure and prevention of nausea and vomiting during and after spinal anaesthesia for caesarean section. Br J Anaesth. 2000 Apr;84(4):463-7. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bja.a013471.
• Griffiths JD, Gyte GM, Popham PA, Williams K, Paranjothy S, Broughton HK, Brown HC, Thomas J. Interventions for preventing nausea and vomiting in women undergoing regional anaesthesia for caesarean section. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 May 18;5(5):CD007579. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007579.pub3.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.