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Stefano Barbaro1, Pierdomenico Carone1, Laura Lanotte2
1Anesthesia, Resuscitation and Pain Therapy, Ospedale Monsignor Dimiccoli, Barletta, ITA.
Abstract:
Opioids are one of the main classes of drugs used in anesthesia, both for the intraoperative and postoperative period, for a multitude of surgical procedures. In recent years, anesthetic techniques have been developed that reduce or avoid the use of opioids and their side effects. One of these is opioid-free anesthesia, which does not involve the use of opioid drugs in the intraoperative period. In this case report, we used this anesthetic technique for an emergency videolaparoscopic appendectomy for a young woman in a state of sepsis with a history of previous surgery for the removal of a voluminous ovarian cyst.
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