Although high-opioid anesthesia was long the standard for cardiac surgery, some anesthesiologists now favor multimodal analgesia and low-opioid anesthetic techniques. The typical cardiac surgery opioid dose is unclear, and the degree to which patients, anesthesiologists, and institutions influence this opioid dose is unknown.
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