Kurt Ruetzler, Mateo Montalvo, Omer Miller Rotem, Elyad Ekrami, Julian Rössler, Jorge Andres Araujo Duran, Albert Dahan, Yaacov Gozal, Philippe Richebe, Borzoo Farhang, Alparslan Turan, Daniel I Sessler
BACKGROUND: Nociception-guided intraoperative opioid administration might help reduce postoperative pain. A commonly used and validated nociception monitor system is nociception level (NOL), which provides the nociception index, ranging from 0 to 100, with 0 representing no nociception and 100 representing extreme nociception. We tested the hypothesis that NOL responses are similar in men and women given remifentanil and fentanyl, across various types of anesthesia, as a function of American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status designations, and over a range of ages and body morphologies...
October 2023: Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica