Nausea mechanisms and management /

Stern, Robert Morris, 1937-

Nausea mechanisms and management / [electronic resource] : Robert M. Stern, Kenneth L. Koch, and Paul L.R. Andrews. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - viii, 462 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nausea : definitions, history, and function -- Prevalence of nausea from various causes -- Nausea as a protective control mechanism with a dynamic threshold -- The central nervous system and nausea -- The autonomic nervous system and nausea -- The endocrine system and nausea -- Gastric dysrhythmias and nausea -- The functions, identification, and measurement of nausea and related behaviours in animals -- The measurement of nausea in humans -- Diagnosis and management of acute and chronic nausea -- Nausea of diabetes -- Nausea during pregnancy -- Postoperative nausea -- Nausea resulting from cancer and its treatment -- Nausea of motion sickness -- Future research : management and mechanisms.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780199720873 (electronic bk.)




Nausea.
Nausea--Treatment.


Electronic books.

RB150.N38 / S84 2011

616/.047