Impacts of intrathecal fentanyl on the incidence of postoperative nausea/vomiting: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized studies

• Main Authors: Andrés Fabricio Caballero-Lozada (Author), Juan Manuel Gómez (Author), Arley Torres-Mosquera (Author), Álvaro González-Carvajal (Author), Andrea Marín-Prado (Author), Andrés Zorrilla-Vaca (Author), Xuechun Zhao (Author), Jinlei Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Post-operative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is an event of multifactorial origin with an incidence of 30% in the general population. Opioids such as fentanyl are being used as adjuvant to local anesthetic for its antiemetic effect. In this context, with this study we aimed to evaluate the impact of sp...