MORPHINE HYPERSENSITIVITY IN KYPHOSCOLIOSIS
Open Access
- 1 April 1945
- Vol. 7 (2) , 101-103
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.7.2.101
Abstract
Patients with impaired vital capacity and pulmonary ventilation associated with thoracic deformity due to kyphoscoliosis react poorly to morphine; they cannot withstand the respiratory center depression the opiate causes. Three fatal cases with postmortem results are given.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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