Mb. Hough et B. Sweeney, POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING IN ARTHROSCOPIC DAY-CASE SURGERY - A COMPARISON BETWEEN DESFLURANE AND ISOFLURANE, Anaesthesia, 53(9), 1998, pp. 910-914
We compared the postoperative effects, in particular nausea and vomiti
ng, of two commonly used anaesthetic agents, isoflurane and desflurane
, in patients undergoing day-case arthroscopic surgery. We found a sig
nificantly higher incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting in th
ose patients receiving desflurane. In our study, desflurane was associ
ated with a higher incidence of peroperative respiratory complications
, including airway irritability and coughing.