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Materials and Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 1194 patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery. Patients were categorized into lower PaO2 (PaO2 \u2264 200 mmHg) and higher PaO2 (PaO2 &gt; 200 mmHg) groups based on intraoperative arterial blood gas analysis. Overlap weighting was used to balance baseline characteristics and intraoperative variables. Primary outcomes included postoperative opioid consumption (measured in morphine milligram equivalents, MME) at 0\u201324 and 24\u201348 h. Secondary outcomes included pain intensity, frequency of rescue analgesics, the incidence of PPCs and in-hospital mortality. Results: After overlap weighting, the higher PaO2 group showed significantly lower strong opioid consumption during the 24\u201348 h period compared to the lower PaO2 group (0.22 \u00b1 0.04 vs. 0.50 \u00b1 0.11 MME; adjusted p = 0.014). The frequency of rescue analgesics was significantly reduced in the higher PaO2 group (1.04 \u00b1 0.06 vs. 1.35 \u00b1 0.11; adjusted p = 0.007). However, pain intensity and the total MME for 0\u201324 h did not differ. There was no significant difference in the incidence of total PPCs or total adverse events between the two groups. Conclusions: Higher intraoperative PaO2 was associated with a significant decrease in opioid requirements during the postoperative 24\u201348 h and frequency of rescue analgesics without increasing PPCs and adverse events. These findings support the need for prospective studies to determine whether higher intraoperative PaO2 may have a clinically meaningful role in perioperative analgesic strategies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/medicina62071318","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,8]],"date-time":"2026-07-08T14:27:23Z","timestamp":1783520843000},"page":"1318","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Association Between Intraoperative Arterial Oxygen Tension and Postoperative Opioid Consumption: A Large-Scale Cohort Study Using Overlap Weighting Analysis"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"62","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7050-9134","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Moon Ok","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 158 Paryong-ro, Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon-si 51353, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-3741-0636","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hanna","family":"Koh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 158 Paryong-ro, Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon-si 51353, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1519-3787","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sung-Ae","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 158 Paryong-ro, Masanhoewon-gu, Changwon-si 51353, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"847","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jpain.2009.12.004","article-title":"Hyperbaric oxygen treatment induces a 2-phase antinociceptive response of unusually long duration in mice","volume":"11","author":"Chung","year":"2010","journal-title":"J. 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