INTRATHECAL MORPHINE FOR POSTOPERATIVE PAIN RELIEF IN CHILDREN
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- 1 February 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in British Journal of Anaesthesia
- Vol. 56 (2) , 137-140
- https://doi.org/10.1093/bja/56.2.137
Abstract
Intrathecal morphine was given to 56 children undergoing open-heart surgery. The first 27 patients received 0.03 mg kg−1 and the other 29 received 0.02 mg kg−1. Satisfactory postoperative analgesia, lasting for 22 h or longer, was obtained in over 60% of the patients in each group. Respiratory depression occurred in six of the first group (0.03 mg kg−1), and three in the second (0.02 mgkg−1), most frequently between 3.5 and 4.5 h after the administration of the intrathecal morphine.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: