Opioid-free anesthesia for breast cancer surgery: An observational study

• Main Authors: Swagata Tripathy (Author), Satyajit Rath (Author), Suresh Agrawal (Author), P Bhaskar Rao (Author), A Panda (Author), T S Mishra (Author), Sukdev Nayak (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and Aims: Opioids are associated with postoperative nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, and increased analgesic requirement. A nonopioid anesthesia technique may reduce morbidity, enable day care surgery, and possibly decrease tumor recurrence. We compared opioid-free, nerve block-based anesthe...