Does an educational strategy based on systematic preoperative assessment of simplified Apfel's score decrease postoperative nausea and vomiting?
An educational strategy based on systematic preoperative measurement and recording of the simplified Apfel's score is efficient to decrease markedly the incidence of PONV in a population of adult surgical patients.
Alterations in the local production of peptidergic neurotransmitters, especially ET-1, may contribute to the molecular pathogenesis of ureteropelvic junction obstruction. Results previously obtained in the stenotic tissue from children were confirmed in the stenotic tissue from the rat model. We hypothesize that the alterations are disease-, but not age-specific.