What is the likelihood of nausea/vomiting?
Nausea/vomiting is the most common side effect of surgery and anesthesia. General anesthetics statistically result in nausea approximately 20% of the time. Risk factors for nausea include those susceptible to motion sickness or with a prior history of nausea after procedures, female gender, gynecologic or abdominal surgery, inner ear or eye surgery, diabetes, pregnancy and obesity. We have several drugs available to treat prophylactically (before the procedure) if you are at risk. If you feel nauseated after your surgery we will aggressively treat it.
