Talk:Postoperative nausea and vomiting

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A fact from Postoperative nausea and vomiting appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 June 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that postoperative nausea and vomiting is an unpleasant complication affecting about two million people in the United Kingdom annually?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/June.

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Meridian point

In conjunction with antiemetic medications, acupressure application to the Pericardium Meridian 6 point has been found to produce a positive effect, in relieving postoperative nausea and vomiting. However, any Pericardium Meridian 6 point device application needs to be patient-friendly, in its use during the perioperative period. Since over 60% of surgical procedures in the U.S. are performed in ambulatory settings, same day surgery patients could also benefit from the Pericardium Meridian 6 point acupressure technique.

The text above lacked a reference, so I did a Google search. The 2nd hit was this [1], which states:

RESULTS: Results showed that the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting was 36% in the treatment group and 40% in placebo group, which is statistically insignificant. CONCLUSION: Application of acupressure at P6 point half an hour before induction of anaesthesia does not significantly alter the incidence of postoperative nausea and/or vomiting within 6 hours after surgery.

I also found a reference to a study showing positive results. Therefore, I have edited the page to include both references.

I did not make an attempt to resolve the formatting difference between my citations and the citations already on the page, which did not appear to use the ref tag. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loraan (talk • contribs) 20:47, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Mechanisms

Mechanisms are missing from the article, described very well here: [2] --WS (talk) 11:58, 22 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]