Surgery

RCT evidence that brief pre-surgical hypnosis can reduce post-operative nausea & vomiting and reduce post surgical pain and distress Therapeutic suggestions given during neurolept-anaesthesia decrease post-operative nausea and vomiting. A double-blind randomized study was performed in 100 patients undergoing thyroidectomy Eberhart-L-H, Döring-H-J, Holzrichter-P, Roscher-R, Seeling-W. Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Ulm, Germany. European Journal of Anaesthesiology 1998 Jul, VOL: 15 (4), P: 446-52, ISSN:0265-0215. Preoperative hypnosis reduces postoperative vomiting after surgery of the breasts. A prospective, randomized and blinded study. (50 patients) Enqvist-B, Björklund-C, Engman-M, Jakobsson-J. Dept. of Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 1997 Sep, VOL: 41 (8), P: 1028-32, ISSN:0001-5172. The incidence and severity of postoperative nausea and vomiting in patients exposed to positive intra-operative suggestions. (60 patients undergoing routine major gynaecological surgery) Williams-A-R, Hind-M, Sweeney-B-P, Fisher-R. Department of Anaesthetics, Poole General Hospital, Dorset. Anaesthesia 1994 Apr, VOL: 49 (4), P: 340-2, ISSN: 0003-2409. Intra-operative suggestions reduce incidence of post hysterectomy emesis. (50 patients) Maroof-M, Ahmed-S-M, Khan-R-M, Bano-S-J, Haque-A-W. Department of Anaesthesiology, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association {J-Pak-Med-Assoc } 1997 Intraoperative therapeutic suggestions in day-case surgery: are there benefits for postoperative outcome? (70 patients undergoing elective hernia repair under general anaesthesia) Lebovits-A-H, Twersky-R, McEwan-B. Department of Anesthesiology, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA. British journal of anaesthesia {Br-J-Anaesth} 1999 Jun, VOL: 82 (6), P: 861-6, ISSN: 0007-0912. Brief presurgery hypnosis reduces distress and pain in excisional breast biopsy patients. (20 patients) Montgomery-Guy-H, Weltz-Christina-R, Seltz-Megan, Bovbjerg-Dana-H. The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis {Int-J-Clin-Exp-Hypn} 2002 Jan, VOL: 50 (1), P: 17-32, ISSN: 0020-7144.