POVOC Pediatric Postoperative Vomiting Score
POVOC pediatric postoperative-vomiting score (Eberhart 2004): surgery >= 30 min, age >= 3 years, POV/PONV history, and strabismus surgery, each 1 point; total 0-4 stratifies risk.
Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Surgery >= 30 minutes
- Yes
- Age >= 3 years
- Yes
- History of POV/PONV
- Yes
Result: POVOC score 3 of 4 — ~55% postoperative-vomiting risk.
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What the result means
- 0-4
- Surgery >= 30 min, age >= 3 y, POV/PONV history, strabismus surgery, each 1 point. POV risk ~ 9/10/30/55/70% for 0-4. A risk score, not a diagnosis.
What you enter
- Surgery >= 30 minutes
- Age >= 3 years
- History of POV/PONV (self or relative)
- Strabismus surgery
How this is calculated
Eberhart LHJ, Geldner G, Kranke P, et al. The development and validation of a risk score to predict the probability of postoperative vomiting in pediatric patients. Anesth Analg. 2004;99(6):1630-1637. Read the source ↗
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