Sometimes a gentle back rub or leg rub or a change in the person's position can relieve restlessness, tension, and discomfort that may be perceived as pain. Usually there is a basin for this purpose close at hand. Turn the patient on their side so they will not choke or aspirate the vomitus into their lungs. Hold the basin against their cheek and under their chin. Call for help.
Antiemetic drugs can control vomiting.
Hiccups usually stop if carbon dioxide is inhaled, so help the patient to breathe in and out of a paper bag for a few minutes. It this fails, tell a nurse. Conversation Always speak to the patient in their presence, not about them. Careless conversations over an unconscious person are sometimes clearly heard by that person. Hearing is thought to be the last of the senses to fade.