Postoperative pain, nausea and vomiting need not continue to plague our patients

Abstract

SUMMARY

Postoperative nausea and vomiting has long troubled the anesthesiologists and the surgeons, besides making the life of the patients miserable during this specific period. The main stay of management of this troublesome condition has been drugs belonging to assorted groups of anti-emetics with variable results. None of these drugs comes without side effects. Lately the emphasis has been focused on limiting the use of inhalational agents and resort to opioid free anesthesia. The author has vast experience of administration of deep sedation and anesthesia without the use of both.  This editorial highlights his experience of anesthesia virtually without postoperative nausea and vomiting.