Aromatherapy for Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Children

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most common postoperative complications of general anesthesia in pediatrics. Pediatric rates of nausea and vomiting are approximately double those of adult patients. Aromatherapy has recently been shown to reduce PONV in adults, but the effect in paediatric patients is unknown. The goal of this study is to determine the feasibility of a large-scale study in the paediatric population.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Stuart Wright
• Collaborator: Soothing Scents, Inc.

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) class I or II

• absence of neurodevelopment disorders

• patient having elective day surgery

Exclusion Criteria:

• family or patient refusal

• allergy or sensitivity to aromatherapy oils

• inability to smell in the postoperative period