Table 1.

Incidence of emesis, retching, sialorrhea and lip-licking in cats receiving maropitant 8 mg PO administered 18 h prior to dexmedetomidine 20 µg/kg and morphine 0.1 mg/kg IM, or no antiemetic treatment (control)

	Incidence of emesis	Incidence of retching	Incidence of sialorrhea	Incidence of lip-licking
Maropitant	4% (2/46)	8% (4/46)	21% (10/46)	30% (14/46)
Control	40% (20/50)	40% (20/50)	22% (11/50)	52% (26/50)
P value	0.0002	0.0003	1.0	0.04