Post-Operative Therapy for Nausea or Vomiting

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 2018-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This is a single site, prospective, randomized controlled study designed to evaluate the impact of acupressure when used as an initial treatment before rescue medications in the treatment of post-operative nausea and/or vomiting at UCD.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Davis
• Treatments: Ondansetron

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients scheduled for elective surgery requiring general anesthesia

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age less than 18 years

• Adults unable to give primary consent

• Pregnancy

• Prisoners

• Unable to access pericardial 6 acupressure point bilaterally post procedure

• Allergy to Ondansetron