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Morphine & pregnancy

Mathias Kalkum trauma-list@trauma.org
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 12:20:58 +0200 

Nelspruit Base schrieb:

>-- snipp -- Would anyone be so kind as to offer their opinions on the management of such
>a patient with reference to the use of morphine. -- snipp --
>
Morphin may cause weakend caontractions of the uterus and may lead to 
depressed breathing in the newborn infant. So we should consider this 
when reasoning about treatment of severe pain in the (pregnant) trauma 
victim.

As I understand you, that was exactly what you did: O2, being prepared 
for delivery, rapid transport to next available unit  with c-section, 
*and* to care for the mother is to care for the child (appropriate 
reduction, adaequate analgetics, rapid transport, etc..) . Seems a 
perfect action to me!

Mathias

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