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Opiates != Anesthesia Opiates are painkillers, anesthetic are a different beast.

• freedomben 9y ago
  Fentanyl is an extremely common ingredient in a surgical cocktail.
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  • IntronExon 9y ago
    It is indeed, but as an analegesic, not an anasthetic. Paralytic, analegesic, anesthetic, is the usual trio for general anesthetic surgery. For “twilight sleep” as used in most colonoscopies, it will tend to be fentanyl and Versed.