N/V

Medical abbreviation · Gastroenterology

N/V stands for Nausea and vomiting, a gastroenterology abbreviation.

Charting shorthand recorded in histories, review of systems and medication side-effect lists. Common causes include gastroenteritis, pregnancy, medications such as opioids and chemotherapy, bowel obstruction, migraine and raised intracranial pressure.

Example: Post-op day 1: N/V controlled with ondansetron 4 mg IV, tolerating clear liquids.

Usage notes

Also written N&V or N/V. Pregnancy-related nausea is abbreviated NVP, and postoperative nausea and vomiting PONV. Persistent vomiting with weight loss and electrolyte disturbance in pregnancy is hyperemesis gravidarum. Bilious or feculent vomiting points toward obstruction and warrants urgent imaging.

Related abbreviations

More gastroenterology abbreviations

• MASH – Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis
• MASLD – Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
• MELD – Model for End-Stage Liver Disease
• MetALD – Metabolic and alcohol-related liver disease
• MRCP – Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography
• mt-sDNA – Multitarget stool DNA test
• NAFLD – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
• NASH – Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis
• NG – Nasogastric
• NVD – Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea
• OGD – Oesophagogastroduodenoscopy
• OLT – Orthotopic liver transplantation

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