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. 2021 May 18;2021(5):CD007579. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007579.pub3

Kim 1999.

Study characteristics
Methods RCT
Participants Inclusion criteria:
  • Women undergoing CS under combined spinal (tetracaine) and epidural (buprenorphine and bupivacaine) anaesthesia.

  • N = 60


Exclusion criteria:
Interventions Intervention 1: dopamine antagonist (Comparison 2)
  • Metoclopramide 10 mg IV

  • N = 20


Intervention 2: 5HT3 antagonist (Comparison 1)
  • Ondansetron 4 mg IV

  • N = 20


Comparator: placebo
  • Saline

  • N = 20

Outcomes Nausea, vomiting, satisfaction, side effects.
Notes Setting: Eulgi General Hospital, Seoul, South Korea
Dates: not reported
Funding source: not reported in abstract
Declaration of interest: not reported in abstract
English abstract only, rest of paper in Korean. We will attempt to get translation
No data for the review in the abstract.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Just says "randomly"
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk No information
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk No information provided in abstract
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk No information provided in abstract
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk 60 women recruited but nothing to say how many analysed
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk Side effects reported in results, but not mentioned in Methods. Need a translation of the full paper
Other bias Unclear risk Very little methodology in the Abstract to assess for other biases