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Norpethidine toxicity and patient controlled analgesia
P A Stone1, P E Macintyre, D A Jarvis
1Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia.
British Journal of Anaesthesia
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with i.v. opioids is prescribed increasingly. We report three cases of norpethidine toxicity in patients receiving pethidine by PCA.