Morphine for facial/airway burns.

Veneficus said:
(one of the reasons I like morphine over fent is because it more gradually loses effect over time)
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This is a really good point, which I don't think I've ever considered.



Veneficus said:
Some services opposed to giving their medics neuromuscular blocks, still have high dose benzo admin to knock the patient down to the point of intubation. Which I think is foolish because it does the same thing in a less optimal and less safe way.
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The idea of disallowing NMB's (ostensibly because neuromuscular blockade "is dangerous"), yet allowing such high doses of sedatives that respiratory drive and airway reflexes are mitigated anyway - yet good intubating conditions are anything but assured - drives me absolutely insane.

But that's a whole other topic for a whole other thread :cool:
 
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