RE: Re: Dear Tom.

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Hi Toby,

A whole bunch of questions in there really?

Consider in the answer:

1 Why did your employer switch from morphine to

nubaine (if they did) ?

2 Do you also carry naloxone ?

3 What is the pain killer of choice at your

receiving centre ?

4 Do you hold sterilised water or sod-chlod (both

is a good answer too) ?

5 What is your current protocol ?

6 Will you get approval for the use of the

morphine or from professional judgement, would you

expect it to be still good?

Morphine is one of those drugs which should have a

date on it marking Satan's gold medal in snow

boarding, but it is like canned food and the

various safety fascists desire a time and place in

the near future. Nubaine is only safer in the

regard of its not an opioid and the oft mentioned

risk of addiction is its single saving grace. Once

you get past the theft opportunities for drug

misusers you can get into the clinical benefits of

nubaine v morphine and there is NONE. You can only

partially reverse nubaine with narcan, it doesn't

provide the same pain relief and, wait for it,

costs more. Thats not a clinical benefit, until

your clinic benefits from a budget.

Good question, tough answer in some circumstances?

Ross

Re: Dear Tom.

I have been vaguely following this thread and

agree with most of the

points. But I think There is a big dilemma when

for example you hold

vials of nubain for instance that are still in

date, and morphine that

has expired by a year. Your casualty is in pain,

which one would you

go for?

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