A Single Perioperative Injection of Dexamethasone Decreases Nausea, Vomiting, and Pain after Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy

Table 1

Donor baseline variables and surgical outcomes.

	Control	Low dose dexamethasone	High-dose dexamethasone	values	values
				Control; versus; low dose	Control; versus; high dose
Age (years)	43.6 ± 13.4	41.7 ± 13.0	40.5 ± 12.5	0.34	0.09
Sex				<0.001	0.56
Male	51 (45.9)	13 (18.6)	42 (42.0)
Female	60 (54.1)	57 (81.4)	58 (58.0)
BMI (kg/m^2)	26.5 ± 3.4	25.8 ± 4.1	26.7 ± 3.7	0.31	0.65
ASA				0.18	0.21
1	77 (69.4)	55 (78.6)	77 (77.0)
2	34 (30.6)	15 (21.4)	23 (23.0)
Intraoperative ondansetron use	103 (92.8)	64 (91.4)	93 (93.0)	0.74	0.95
Operative time (min)	147.8 ± 25.0	148.1 ± 22.7	155.4 ± 24.1	0.93	0.009
Side of nephrectomy				0.013	0.85
Left	91 (81.1)	46 (65.7)	82 (82.0)
Right	20 (18.9)	24 (34.3)	18 (18.0)
Postoperative hospital stay (days)	2.68 ± 0.62	2.63 ± 0.59	2.66 ± 0.62	0.69	0.86
Complications (%)	3 (2.7)	3 (4.3)	0 (0)	0.68	0.25

Data are expressed as mean ± SD or (%).
ASA: American Society of Anesthesiologists; BMI: body mass index.