The Relationship between Post Operative Nausea and Vomitting (PONV) with Type of Eye Surgery with General Anesthesia
Journal Title: Journal of Anesthesia and Surgery - Year 2016, Vol 3, Issue 2
Abstract
PONV is still the most common complaint by patients after undergoing surgery with general anesthesia PONV is not well understood and its treatment cannot be carried out completely yet However in recent years it has been known a number of risk factors that lead to PONV Causes of PONV are multifactorial and classified as patient factors surgery factors and pharmacological factor In terms of surgery factors eye surgery is one of the surgeries with a high level of incidence of PONV with differences in incidence of each type of eye surgery This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the prevalence of post operative nausea and vomiting PONV and the type of eye surgery with general anesthesia in patients at SMEC Eye Hospital Medan The type of this research is cross-sectional study The study was conducted by using primary data from interview and patient rsquo s medical records from July 2014 to November 2014 The study included 53 subjects consisting of a variety of patients with different types of surgery both intraocular and extraocular emsp emsp The results shows that 5 people 9 4 were diagnosed with PONV with complaints of nausea as the overall PONV Onset of PONV experienced in the first 8 hours by 4 people 80 and 1 person 20 for the second 8 hours Type of surgery with the highest incidence of PONV is intraocular surgery This incidence suffered by 4 people 80 with vitrectomy as the most diagnosed as many as 2 people 40 The results of the chi-square statistical analysis found no significant correlation with p-value 0 199 p gt 0 05 Based on the analysis it can be concluded that there is no relationship between the prevalence of PONV with the type of eye surgery with general anesthesia Suggested for subsequent researchers to conduct similar studies with wider coverage and planned a better distribution of the sample size
Authors and Affiliations
Andriamuri primaputra Lubis
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