Endocrine Abstracts

Objective: Postoperative nausea and vomiting is common after general anaesthesia and is reported by ~20–25% of all patients. The standard prophylaxis at the authors department is a single treatment of 4 mg of dexamethasone before initiating anesthesia. Dexamethasone is known to suppress ACTH and cortisol levels. The objective was to find out whether the standard PONV-prophylaxis of 4 mg of dexamethasone has an effect on postoperative levels of cortisol in patients undergo...