Conditions: Thyroidectomy Thyroid Diseases
Keywords: postoperative nausea and vomitus PONV thyroid surgery
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 152
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The study is to compare the postoperative recovery, as determined by postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after preoperative application of single-dose dexamethasone versus saline in patients undergoing partial or total thyroidectomy.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Administration of 8mg(2ml) intravenous Dexamethasone (Mephameson®) arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: Dexamethasone intervention 2: NaCl 0.9%
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 8mg (2ml) of dexamethasone (Mephameson®) administered intravenously preoperatively before thyroid surgery intervention 2: 2ml of NaCl 0.9% administered intravenously preoperatively before thyroid surgery

Protocol document: