Gastroenterologie
a hepatologie

Multimodal opioid-sparing total intravenous anesthesia in bariatric surgery – initial experience

Milan Hrobský^1,2, Tomáš Henlín¹, Jiří Blažek², Petra Šrámková², Martin Fried²

+ Affiliation
¹ Anesthesia s.r.o, Anesteziologie a resuscitace, Praha
² OB klinika a.s. – Centrum pro léčbu obezity a metabolických onemocnění, Praha

Summary

Obesity represents a significant challenge for anesthesia management due to different drug pharmacodynamics and an increased risk of perioperative complications. Multimodal opioid-sparing total intravenous anesthesia is one of the options for positively influencing these complications. Since opioid-sparing methods are still considered by most anesthesiologists to be the only alternative techniques, we present our initial experiences and a comparison with inhalation anesthesia in laparoscopy as inspiration for others.

Keywords

obesity, opioid-sparing anesthesia, multimodal techniques, TIVA, anesthesia depth monitoring

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