Náuseas y vómitos postoperatorios: fisiopatología, factores de riesgo, profilaxis y tratamiento / Postoperative nausea and vomiting: physiopathology, risk factors, prophylaxis and treatment

Reconocer la importancia de prevenir y tratar precozmente las náuseas y los vómitos postoperatorios (NVPO) es fundamental para evitar complicaciones postoperatorias, mejorar la satisfacción del paciente y permitir el desarrollo de la cirugía mayor ambulatoria y de la cirugía fast-track. El tema de las NVPO podría parecer estancado, pero seguimos avanzando. Aparecen nuevos conceptos y problemas como las náuseas y vómitos postalta, nuevos factores de riesgo y nuevos fármacos. Por otro lado, siguen existiendo ideas erróneas, como asociar las NVPO con la estancia en la unidad de recuperación postanestésica o asumir como factores de riesgo características del paciente, de la anestesia o de la cirugía que realmente no lo son. Debemos enfrentarnos a las NVPO de otro modo, implementando el uso de las guías clínicas en nuestros centros y apostando por una profilaxis más agresiva en determinados grupos de pacientes. Presentamos a continuación una amplia revisión del tema (AU)

Recognising the importance of the prevention and early treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is essential to avoid postoperative complications, improve patient satisfaction and enable the development of major outpatient surgery and fast-track surgery. The topic of PONV might seem to have become stagnant, but we are moving forward. New concepts and problems like post-discharge nausea and vomiting, new risk factors and new drugs are appearing. However, there continue to be mistaken notions about PONV, such as the association between PONV and post-anaesthesia care unit stays, or assuming that it is a risk factore characteristic of the patient, anaesthesia or surgery when it is not. Perhaps, now is the moment to tackle PONV in a different manner, implementing guidelines and going for more aggressive prophylaxis in some groups of patients. We present an extensive review of this topic (AU)

Postoperative nausea and vomiting: physiopathology, risk factors, prophylaxis and treatment. / Náuseas y vómitos postoperatorios: fisiopatología, factores de riesgo, profilaxis y tratamiento.

Recognising the importance of the prevention and early treatment of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is essential to avoid postoperative complications, improve patient satisfaction and enable the development of major outpatient surgery and fast-track surgery. The topic of PONV might seem to have become stagnant, but we are moving forward. New concepts and problems like post-discharge nausea and vomiting, new risk factors and new drugs are appearing. However, there continue to be mistaken notions about PONV, such as the association between PONV and post-anaesthesia care unit stays, or assuming that it is a risk factore characteristic of the patient, anaesthesia or surgery when it is not. Perhaps, now is the moment to tackle PONV in a different manner, implementing guidelines and going for more aggressive prophylaxis in some groups of patients. We present an extensive review of this topic.

Neuraxial analgesia in a pregnant woman with Fowler's syndrome and sacral neuromodulation.

We report the anesthetic management of a 16-year-old woman with Fowler's syndrome who became pregnant three years after sacral neuromodulation was initiated for treatment of the condition. Multidisciplinary consensus was to switch off the neurostimulator during pregnancy, and attempt vaginal delivery with a neuraxial block. When the patient was admitted for labor, an epidural catheter was placed successfully. The patient had a normal vaginal delivery. Sacral neuromodulation was restarted uneventfully in the early puerperium and the Fowler's syndrome remains well controlled. The baby continues to develop normally three years after delivery.