ANAESTHESIOLOGY - GENERAL ANAESTHESIA / LETTER TO EDITOR
Opioid-free versus opioid-sparing anaesthesia: is regional anaesthesia the variable that matters?
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Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Submission date: 2026-09-18
Acceptance date: 2026-10-25
Publication date: 2026-11-04
Corresponding author
James Lardner
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park Dublin 4, D04 County Dublin, Ireland
Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Elm Park Dublin 4, D04 County Dublin, Ireland
Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther 2026;58(1):226
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