Postoperative pain relief using epidural morphine

1 February 1980

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia

Vol. 35 (2) , 158-160
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1980.tb03796.x

Abstract

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.

Keywords

PAIN RELIEF
EPIDURALLY
USING EPIDURAL
PROSTATECTOMY PATIENTS
EPIDURAL MORPHINE
POSTOPERATIVE PROSTATECTOMY
SIGNIFICANT HYPOTENSION
APPROXIMATELY DOUBLE

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

EPIDURAL MORPHINE IN TREATMENT OF PAIN
The Lancet, 1979
Opiate Receptors and Internal Opiates
Scientific American, 1977