Laparoscopy
Droperidol Effective for Outpatient Surgery
Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 13th, 1999
B.S. Lim, of Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia, and colleagues investigated two doses (10 and 20 (mu)g/kg) of droperidol in 228 women undergoing laparoscopic outpatient surgery ("The Antiemetic and Dysphoric Effects of Droperidol in the Day Surgery Patient," Anesthesia in Intensive Care, August 1999;27(4):371-374).
While both doses of the drug resulted in similar incidences of restlessness, anxiety, dysphoric reactions, and nausea, the researchers found a significantly greater amount of pain in those women receiving 10 (mu)g/kg droperidol.
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