Special indications for opioid free anaesthesia and analgesia, patient and procedure related: including obesity, sleep apnoea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

A Sultana, D Torres, R Schumann - Best Practice & Research Clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Opioid-free anaesthesia (OFA) is a technique where no intraoperative systemic, neuraxial or
intracavitary opioid is administered with the anaesthetic. Opioid-free analgesia similarly
avoids opioids in the perioperative period. There are many compelling reasons to avoid
opioids in the surgical population. A number of case reports and, increasingly, prospective
studies from all over the world support its benefits, especially in the morbidly obese
population with or without sleep apnoea. A derivative technique is opioid sparing, where the …
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