Step 1. Gatorade and bouillon Diet: Patients with severe nausea and vomiting should sip small volumes of salty liquids such as Gatorade or bouillon in order to avoid dehydration. Any…
Drug class Representative individual agents Mechanisms of action Percent with nausea or vomiting (%) Opiates Morphine Hydromorphone Codeine Hydrocodone Oxycodone μ-opioid receptor agonists 5–70 Tramadol Tapentadol μ-opioid receptor agonists plus…
Increased intracranial pressure Stroke Hemorrhagic Ischemic Intracranial mass Primary brain tumor Brain metastases Infection Meningitis Encephalitis Brain abscess Anatomical causes Hydrocephalus Pseudotumor cerebri Idiopathic intracranial hypertension Secondary causes Migraine Seizure…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017Kenneth L. Koch and William L. Hasler (eds.)Nausea and Vomiting10.1007/978-3-319-34076-0_7 7. Nausea and Vomiting Related to Autonomic Nervous System Disorders Thomas L. Abell1 and Dipendra Parajuli1 (1) Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition,…
Fig. 11.1 J-shaped laparotomy. The incision starts from the xiphoid process on the midline to approximately 3–4 cm above the umbilicus. Then, it curves laterally towards the right hypocondrium until…
Fig. 16.1 Multiple atypical resections for colorectal liver metastases (CLM) synchronous to colon cancer. (a) Sg8 wedge resection, Sg6 wedge resection, and Sg5 subsegmentectomy. (b) Detail of Sg5 subsegmentectomy. The…
Fig. 1.1 Schematic representation of the gross appearance of the liver, with the macroscopical lobes. The external anatomical structures have little relation to the vascular anatomy (one exception is the…
Fig. 19.1 Intraoperative view of laparoscopic ultrasound evaluation in a case of multiple bilateral metastases Tumor Ablation The LUS can be used as a guidance method to perform radiofrequency ablation…
Fig. 7.1 Scheme (a) and CT scan (b) of the future liver remnant (FLR) in a patient undergoing evaluation for an extended right hepatectomy of segment 5–8 + segment 4 and 1….
Fig. 14.1 Masatoshi Makuuchi from the National Cancer Center in Tokyo Fig. 14.2 Portal vein embolization: hypertrophy of the future liver remnant, atrophy of the tumor bearing lobe (colorectal liver…
