Epidural morphine analgesia in Guillain Barre syndrome.
Open Access
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
- Vol. 52 (8) , 999-1001
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.52.8.999
Abstract
Severe pain is a frequent symptom in the Guillain Barré syndrome and can be intense, long lasting and with no response to the usual analgesics, including parenteral opiates. Epidural analgesia using morphine chloride in low doses has satisfactorily relieved pain in this disease in nine patients.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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