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multi-organ breakdown and even death. What our team is trying to
do is see if there are ways to help the body recover normally with-
out going into that overdrive stress response — to simply wake up
and be better the next day, or even within a couple of hours.
Ultimately, we expect to see patients spending less time in recovery,
using fewer opioids because they have less pain, going home more sat-
isfied, needing less medication after they're home and experiencing
fewer post-operative complications. OSM
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Dr. Le (vannyle@gmail.com) is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
in Newark, N.J.
