Re: [Phys-l] operating room physics

[chuck britton <cvbritton@mac.com>]

As of yesterday, 03/03/010, general anesthesia is still 'expected' to 
cause nausea.
A scopolamine patch applied the night before as well as nothing to 
eat was prescribed.
And today an anti-nausea pill is to be taken 15 min. before any other 
medication to prevent vomiting.



At 11:29 PM -0500 3/3/10, Hugh Haskell wrote:
> At 20:13 -0800 03/03/2010, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> > bc thought one wasn't to eat for some time before general anesthesia.
> They hadn't, but that didn't keep them from getting the "dry heaves."
>
> I was a sick kid for most of my early years, so I was never healthy
> enough to have my tonsils out. Lucky me. I did have them out when I
> was about 60--that's definitely too old for that operation, but at
> least I wasn't nauseated afterwards. Swallowing was bad enough, but
> the converse would have been worse.
>
> Hugh