Association of Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting Incidence With Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio in Ambulatory Maxillofacial Surgery

Can the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio be used to predict postoperative nausea and vomiting in children?

“…A previous study involving adult patients reported that preoperative NLR was associated with PONV. However, we think the fact that the total number of cases (n = 64) in that study was lower and the incidence of vomiting (43.8%) was higher than in our study has influenced the results [4]. We had expected that we would find higher NLR and PLR due to hypersensitivity in children who underwent AE and due to chronic infection in children who underwent ATE.…”

“…Since we did not have a control group in our study, we could not compare the NLR and PLR in this study with those in healthy children. Some studies have reported the NLR cut off for active infection to be ≥2 [4,[20][21]. However, to authors' knowledge, no cut-off value has been reported for the NLR and PLR as an indication of active infection in children.…”

“…However, the pathogenesis of PONV is a complex and known to result from ischemic, metabolic, neurogenic, pharmacological, or mechanical factors [3]. PONV and POP lead to prolonged hospitalization as well as to disturbance of the patient comfort [4]. The Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) are widely used as markers of systemic inflammation in many diseases [5][6].…”

Can Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte or Platelet-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Be Used to Predict Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in Breast Reduction?

“…Arpacı et al (2017) investigated the relationship between NLR and PONV in patients who underwent maxillofacial surgery and reported that PONV risk increased significantly in patients with a higher NLR. By stating that NLR could easily be calculated with data obtained from a full blood count and might be an indicator for PONV, they claimed that antiemetic prophylaxis could be given after the evaluation of the NLR ratio [20].…”

Effects of Neutrophil/Lymphocyte Ratio on Postoperative Pain in Shoulder Arthroscopy Patients

“…Araştırmacıl-lar, preoperatif dönemde NLO'nun hesaplanarak antiemetik proflaksisinin uygulanmasını önermek-tedirler. 20 Daoudia ve ark. 'nın çalışmasında, laparoskopik kolesistektomi sonrası analjezik tüketimi ile NLO arasındaki ilişki araştırılmıştır.…”