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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Protocol - Intervention

Drugs at caesarean section for preventing nausea, vomiting and aspiration pneumonitis

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Abstract

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:

  1. To determine whether antiemetics (pharmacological and non‐pharmacological) given prior to having a caesarean section reduces the incidence of nausea and vomiting in healthy women with an uncomplicated pregnancy.

  2. To determine whether drugs given prior to having a caesarean section reduce the incidence of aspiration pneumonitis in healthy women with an uncomplicated pregnancy.