Post-Operative Therapy for Nausea or Vomiting
Post-Operative Therapy for Nausea or Vomiting
This is a single site, prospective, randomized controlled study designed to evaluate the
 impact of acupressure when used as an initial treatment before rescue medications in the
 treatment of post-operative nausea and/or vomiting at UCD.
Each individual will only participate in the post anesthetic care unit starting from when the
 patient's nurse or anesthesiology team deems that the patient needs treatment for PONV. It
 ends when the patient is discharged from anesthesiology care.

 Patients will be asked to score nausea before randomized treatment of acupressure or
 medication, and to score nausea after treatment.
Inclusion Criteria:

 - Patients scheduled for elective surgery requiring general anesthesia

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Age less than 18 years

 -  Adults unable to give primary consent

 -  Pregnancy

 -  Prisoners

 -  Unable to access pericardial 6 acupressure point bilaterally post procedure

 -  Allergy to Ondansetron