What literature support exists for anti-emetic use in the prehospital environment?
There is very little research in peer-reviewed emergency medicine literature concerning paramedic administration of anti-emetics. That is not to say there is anything dangerous or taboo about this practice. Most of what we do in EMS has not been appropriately researched for a variety of reasons, including the fact that out-of-hospital research is notoriously difficult to conduct, especially the prospective studies that are considered to be most worthwhile and of scientific merit. Administration of anti-emetics to a population of patients who need them is considered to be a standard emergency medicine practice that has few complications from a single dose, both from the technical aspect (i.e., injection of a medication) and the clinical aspect (i.e., decision to administer the medication). Thus, it is unlikely that we will ever see many studies about whether out-of-hospital delivery is appropriate. We found one published abstract and no published articles concerning prehospital anti-eme
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