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Hyoscine and Premedication

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Difference between Hyoscine and Premedication

Hyoscine vs. Premedication

Hyoscine, also known as scopolamine, is a medication used to treat motion sickness and postoperative nausea and vomiting. Premedication is using medication before some other therapy (usually surgery or chemotherapy) to prepare for that forthcoming therapy.

Similarities between Hyoscine and Premedication

Hyoscine and Premedication have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Analgesic, Anesthesia, Benzodiazepine, Diphenhydramine, Postoperative nausea and vomiting, Surgery, Therapy.

Analgesic

An analgesic or painkiller is any member of the group of drugs used to achieve analgesia, relief from pain.

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Anesthesia

In the practice of medicine (especially surgery and dentistry), anesthesia or anaesthesia (from Greek "without sensation") is a state of temporary induced loss of sensation or awareness.

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Benzodiazepine

Benzodiazepines (BZD, BZs), sometimes called "benzos", are a class of psychoactive drugs whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.

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Diphenhydramine

Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine mainly used to treat allergies.

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Postoperative nausea and vomiting

Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is an unpleasant complication affecting about a third of the 10% of the population undergoing general anaesthesia each year.

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Surgery

Surgery (from the χειρουργική cheirourgikē (composed of χείρ, "hand", and ἔργον, "work"), via chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate or treat a pathological condition such as a disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance or to repair unwanted ruptured areas.

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Therapy

Therapy (often abbreviated tx, Tx, or Tx) is the attempted remediation of a health problem, usually following a diagnosis.

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Hyoscine and Premedication Comparison

Hyoscine has 158 relations, while Premedication has 30. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 3.72% = 7 / (158 + 30).

References

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