Abstract
Opioid-free anaesthesia (OFA) is a term covering a variety of techniques and substances, generally based on the concept of using opioid-sparing techniques and multimodal analgesia. These techniques allow the anaesthesiologist to spare opioids (up to no opioids) during the procedure.1 There is an abundant literature documenting the feasibility of OFA, in routine practice, including cohorts of more than 20 000 patients.2 However, while current guidelines emphasise multimodal analgesia and opioid-sparing techniques, they do not explicitly discuss arguments for or against OFA, even if referencing OFA...
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 539-541 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | European Journal of Anaesthesiology |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Conflicts of interest: PF received fees from Grunenthal for an educational activity unrelated to any product. MVDV has received support for lectures and research from MSD, Vifor Pharma and CSL Behring. EPZ received financial support from Grunenthal for research activities and advisory and lecture fees from Grünenthal, Novartis and Medtronic. All money went to the institution (WWU/UKM) EPZ is working for, not to her personally. EPZ currently receives scientific support from the DFG, the BMBF, the G-BA and the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No 777500. This Joint Undertaking receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and EFPIA.