Cannabis Use and Inhalational Anesthesia Administration in Older Adults: A Propensity Matched Retrospective Cohort Study.

Ruba SajdeyaMasoud RouhizadehRobert L CookRonald L IsonChen BaiSebastian JuglHanzhi GaoMamoun T MardiniKimia ZandbiglariFarzana I AdibaOsama DasaAlmut G WintersteinCatherine C PriceThomas A PearsonChristoph N SeubertPatrick J Tighe

Published in: Anesthesiology (2024)

Cannabis use was associated with administering statistically significantly higher inhalational anesthetic minimum alveolar concentration equivalents in older adults, but the clinical significance of this difference is unclear. These data do not support the hypothesis that cannabis users require clinically meaningfully higher inhalational anesthetics doses.

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