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When do you consider scheduled antiemetics in hospitalized patients experiencing severe nausea?

How do you monitor for prolonged QTc in this situation (i.e., telemetry, serial EKGs, etc.)?
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Hospital Medicine · Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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The biggest problem I see is antiemetics given PRN when a patient has consistent nausea. The goal is to get above the nausea so that the patient begins to feel better. This is similar to how one treats pain.

Thus, if a patient is taking an antiemetic more than once a day and has consistent nausea, I...

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