
Episode 229: Keywords Part 19: Epidurals
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Is Intrtequal Morphine a Better Pain Relief?
The last question in this category is, compared with epideral morphine. Intrtequal morphine produces a better relief of visceral pain. Less paritus, d less ernar retention, a more respiratory depression. And so intrathec morphine we think of as causing more respiratory Depression. That's probably the answer hereand in the rest of it. I think you can get equal viceral pain relief with epider morphine. The idea was like the Epideral morphine, as you're puting it in the epideral space. So you an hae this like reservoir. You can have the slow, kind of like extended release, for lack of a better description, across
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