Cardamom and Reduced Antiemetic Medication Use

• Effect of Cardamom Inhalation Therapy on Intra-and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting of Mothers Undergoing Spinal Anesthesia for Elective Cesarean Section.

  • 2022-08
  • RCT
  • Journal of perianesthesia nursing : official journal of the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses 37(4)
  • • Mahnaz Khatiban
    • Masoumeh Mirzaie
    • Akbar Fazeli
    • Leili Tapak
    • Zahra Khalili

  • PubMed: 35581106
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jopan.2021.09.008

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Antiemetic Medication Use

  • High evidence
  • Pregnant Women

  Administration of antiemetic medications was lower in the intervention than the placebo group (37.1% vs 65.7%, P = .009).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes