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Case report demonstrates improved postoperative outcomes with multimodal anesthesia, suggesting a viable alternative to opioids.
Opioid-free anesthesia has become a purposeful alternative to addressing nociception in the perioperative settings. Increased opioid availability has been accompanied by an opioid crisis. Around 1.6 million Americans had an opioid dependence problem in 2019 with 70,000 people dying from overdose every year. The concept of multimodal anesthesia aims to avoid the negative effect of opioid use intraoperatively on the patient’s postoperative outcomes.
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