The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 275 No 7375 p602
12 November 2005

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Post-operative vomiting

Post-operative vomiting is more effectively reduced by a new class of drugs, called NK-1 receptor antagonists, than by ondansetron, according to a phase III trial presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists meeting in Atlanta last month. Vomiting was not experienced by 95 per cent of patients in the NK-1 group and 74 per cent in the ondansetron group; there was no difference between the two in reducing nausea.