Nausea and vomiting risk factors
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Overview
Risk factors
- Risk factors for nausea and vomiting vary with underlying cause.
- Well established risk factors for postoperative nausea and vomiting include: [1]
- female gender post puberty
- nonsmoking status
- history of postoperative nausea and vomiting
- history of motion sickness
- childhood after infancy and younger adulthood
- increasing duration of surgery
- use of volatile anesthetics, nitrous oxide, large-dose neostigmine, or intraoperative or postoperative opioids
- Possible risk factors for postoperative nausea nd vomiting include: [1]
- history of migraine
- history of postoperative nausea and vomiting or motion sickness in a child's parent or sibling
- intense preoperative anxiety
- certain ethnicities or surgery types
- decreased perioperative fluids
- crystalloid versus colloid administration
- increasing duration of anesthesia
- general versus regional anesthesia or sedation
- balanced versus total IV anesthesia
- use of longer-acting versus shorter-acting opioids.