Full title: Post-Operative Ice BLock Accelerates Recovery (POLAR) project: a three-arm randomised controlled study.
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Commenced: 2020
Completion Due: 2024
Despite advances in anti-nausea medications, postoperative nausea and vomiting is a common and distressing complication following general anaesthesia and surgery. Eating a flavoured ice block after surgery is non-routinely used in clinical practice to prevent and manage postoperative nausea and vomiting, but there are limited high-quality clinical trials on this topic.
In people who have undergone surgery requiring general anaesthesia, the objectives of this study are to examine the effect of lemonade ice block consumption on post-operative nausea and vomiting and related outcomes (antiemetic use, quality of recovery, hospital length of stay, patient experience), compared to: 1) unflavoured ice chips; and 2). standard care (no ice block or ice chips).
Post-operative ice block consumption offers potential to reduce adverse symptoms of post-operative nausea and vomiting and thus optimise patient recovery, patient experience, as well as decrease costs to healthcare systems through decreased antiemetic use and hospital length of stay.
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St Vincent’s Private Hospital Northside
