Abstract
Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) are distressing side effects of anaesthesia and surgery, with a high incidence after gynaecological surgery [19, 35] and after strabismus surgery in children [21, 26]. An incidence as great as 83% has been reported in female patients after major orthopaedic surgery [22]. Of the antiemetic agents currently available to treat PONV, droperidol would appear to be the most effficacious [22, 35], but despite prophylactic droperidol 2.5 mg 10 min before the end of general anaesthesia for major gynaecological surgery, more than 30% of patients still complained of postoperative emesis [35]
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