Wen Chun Juan

Trained personnel collected age, gender, height, weight, smoking history, PONV history, and motion sickness history preoperatively. The diagnosis, the anaesthesia protocol, the duration of operation and postoperative medication regimen were recorded by reviewing the electronic health record. To reduce bleeding during transection of the hepatic parenchyma, the intermittent hepatic portal occlusion procedure is commonly used during surgery.

Abstract Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is one of the most frequent complications after surgery. PONV prophylaxis has been strongly recommended, and identifying risk factors is the first step. The well-known PONV risk assessment tools were not validated in the liver cancer population, however, no study has explored the relationship between PONV and liver surgery-specific factors.