Opioid-sparing anesthesia with dexmedetomidine provides stable hemodynamic and short hospital stay in non-intubated video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: a propensity score matching cohort study

Abstract Objectives Dexmedetomidine is an alpha-2 agonist with anti-anxiety, sedative, and analgesic effects and causes a lesser degree of respiratory depression. We hypothesized that the use of dexmedetomidine in non-intubated video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) may reduce opioid-related complic...

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Main Authors: Hui-Hsuan Ke, Jing-Yang Liou, Wei-Nung Teng, Po-Kuei Hsu, Mei-Yung Tsou, Wen-Kuei Chang, Chien-Kun Ting
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-04-01
Series:BMC Anesthesiology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12871-023-02032-0

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