Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 72, Issue 4 , Pages 183-187 , April 2009

Risk Factors of Vomiting Among Females on Patient-controlled Epidural Analgesia

  • Yu-Ju Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Kuang-Yi Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Division of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Mei-Yung Tsou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Shih-Pin Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Kwok-Hon Chan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • ,
  • Chien-Kun Ting

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Chien-Kun Ting, Department of Anesthesiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei 112, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Received 10 September 2008 ,Accepted 19 March 2009.

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PII: S1726-4901(09)70051-6

doi: 10.1016/S1726-4901(09)70051-6

Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
Volume 72, Issue 4 , Pages 183-187 , April 2009

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