Dr Westhorpe says this control of vomiting and nausea helps a patient's recovery. It could be quite disastrous depending on the operation, if a patient, is heaving and gut wrenching, and stretching suture lines. If they spend most of the night vomiting, it takes them another day to recover, before they are able to drink fluids. With nausea, vomiting and pain relief now more effectively controlled, patients are able to recover more rapidly from an operation, and even return home the same day. For most patients vomiting after an anaesthetic is now a side effect of by gone days.
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