Postoperative Vomiting in Children - Is Dextrose an Effective Prophylactic Anti-emetic?
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2014-09-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of intraoperative intravenous dextrose
in preventing POV in pediatric population undergoing dental day surgery.
Post-operative vomiting (POV) in children is a frequent complication. Studies using
intravenous (IV) fluids containing dextrose in the perioperative period have shown
improvement of POV in adults. Similar studies have not been done in children.
Knowing that Intravenous (IV) fluids containing dextrose are safe and commonly used in the
paediatric population, this intervention could potentially reduce the amount of rescue
antiemetic medications and improve recovery in same-day surgery paediatric patients.