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Soheyla Nazarnia1, Kathirvel Subramaniam1
1University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract:
Opioid analgesia is still considered the standard of practice for cardiac surgery. In recent years, combinations of several nonnarcotic analgesics and regional analgesia have shown promise in restricting opioid use during and after cardiac surgery. Ketamine infusion, dexmedetomidine infusion, acetaminophen, ketorolac, and gabapentin are useful adjuvants in cardiac anesthesia practice and have opioid-sparing properties. The beneficial effects of nonnarcotic multimodal analgesia on intraoperative stress response, recovery profile, postoperative pain, and persistent opioid use after cardiac surgery are yet to be established, and further randomized clinical trials are required.
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