Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 5

The role of Dexamethasone in reducing nausea and Vomiting after Laparoscopic cholecystectomy

  • Author:
  • Emad Abdzaid Mohan1, Zaid Tariq bdewy1, Qahtan Adnan Mahdi2, Hayder Adnan Fawzi3,
  • Total Page Count: 6
  • Page Number: 570 to 575

1Department of General Surgery, Almahaweel General Hospital, Iraq

2Collage of Medicine, AL-Nahrain University, Iraq

3Clinical Pharmacist, Baghdad Medical City, Iraq

*Corresponding Author: Hayder Adnan Fawzi, Clinical Pharmacist, Baghdad Medical City, Iraq, Email: hayder.adnan2010@gmail.com

Online published on 4 June, 2019.

Abstract

To investigate the efficiency of single dose of (dexamethasone 4mg) intravenously in reduction of postoperative nausea and vomiting, and compared it to metoclopramide.

A prospective placebo controlled study involved total of (150) patients diagnosed clinically and radiologically as cholecystitis and admitted for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Patients were randomly divided into three groups, each with 50 patients, the incidence of nausea and/or vomiting was recorded in three groups with in first 6 hours postoperative and then during the next eighteen hours of the first postoperative day.

Nausea and vomiting significantly reduced in the group receiving dexamethasone on the day of operation

Dexamethasone (4mg) as single prophylactic dose is effective in the prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Additionally dexamethasone is more effective than metoclopramide in reducing postoperative nausea and vomiting following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Keywords

Dexamethasone, postoperative, nausea, vomiting, prevention