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Postoperative pain relief using epidural morphine
Author(s) -
GRAHAM JOAN L.,
KING R.,
McCAUGHEY W.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1980.tb03796.x
Subject(s) - medicine , morphine , bupivacaine , anesthesia , saline , pain relief , surgery
Summary In postoperative prostatectomy patients, morphine 2 mg in 10 ml 0·9% saline was given epidurally for pain relief and its effectiveness compared with bupivacaine. The duration of analgesia with morphine was approximately double that with bupivacaine. Significant hypotension occurred in approximately 5% of the patients receiving bupivacaine, but was not seen following morphine. These seem to be important advantages in the use of morphine by this route.