Feasibility and postoperative opioid sparing effect of an opioid-free anaesthesia in adult cardiac surgery: a retrospective study

Abstract Background No previous study investigated the dexmedetomidine-based opioid-free anesthesia (OFA) protocol in cardiac surgery. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and the postoperative opioid-sparing effect of dexmedetomidine-based OFA in adult cardiac surgery pa...

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Main Authors: Clément Aguerreche, Gaspard Cadier, Antoine Beurton, Julien Imbault, Sébastien Leuillet, Alain Remy, Cédrick Zaouter, Alexandre Ouattara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-06-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-021-01362-1