San Francisco—Postoperative and post-discharge nausea may be very common in children, but it is woefully undertreated, according to a Baylor College of Medicine study. Researchers there concluded that use of the Baxter Retching Faces (BARF) scale may help stem the issue, as it is both easy to use and reliable in the clinical setting.
“Postoperative nausea and vomiting [PONV] is a major complication in adult anesthesia,” said Mehernoor F. Watcha, MD, associate professor of