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Yes Morphine is a narcotic analgesic....It acts directly on the central nervous system.
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∙ 13y agoYes, it can be used as pre-anaesthetic medication or regional anaesthesia (epidural or intrathecal)
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∙ 13y agoNo, morphine is an opiod analgesic. It is a narcotic used for pain control. Sedation is one of the expected side effects of this medication.
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What is the strongest anesthetic in the world?
Morphine.
What drug was heroin designed to take the place of in hospitals?
morphine
Is lidoderm lidocaine patch 5 percent a morphin patch?
Lidocaine is not morphine. They are two different compounds, though both of them are analgesics.
Was morphine common in the 1960s?
While morphine was being used illicitly at the time, and although there was a successful black market for morphine, heroin was much more popular and was considered a larger threat. the DEA knew of one smuggling ring that moved 200lbs of morphine into the U.S. every week back in 1968. Morphine was used as a general anesthetic on battlefields during the Vietnam War and there is evidence that addiction to morphine was most popular with veterans returning home.
Is Fentanyl an anesthetic medication?
Fentanyl originally was developed as an anesthetic, and is still widely used today for surgical procedures where the patient needs to be conscious (relatively) and able to respond to commands (e.g., bronchoscopy). Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine (100 micrograms of Fentanyl is equivalent to 10mg's of Morphine). Fentanyl patches (Duragesic, e.g.) use concentrated doses of Fentanyl delivered to the bloodstream transdermally over extended periods, which make them ideal for long term chronic pain patients.
When was chloroform last used in surgery?
we used it as a anesthetic. now we are not using it as a anesthetic.
Hospitals of the civil war?
Hospitals of these times were very crude. Sometimes someones home, bark, or a church was used as a hospital. Often times the wounded were cared for in a make shift tent or and open field. The conditions were very unsanitary. Infections ran rapid because of the lack of antibiotics and the lack of sterilized instruments. Nurses and surgeons often did not wash their hands between patients. It was unknown that hand washing prevented the spread of infections and disease. Often times soldiers had to have limbs amputated due to gangrene. During these times there was some anesthetic used but often times anesthetic was not available. The anesthetic would have been ether or chloroform. The problem with chloroform is that it can be toxic and is a respiratory depressant. Ether is that it was highly flammable. If no anesthetic was available the most prized surgeon where those who could amputate a leg the fastest. Morphine was available as a pain killer but is highly addictive. Morphine became known as the soldier's disease.
Is it bad to warm up dental anesthetic?
Warming anesthetic can cause immediate death!
Does anesthetic hurt?
No, I had surgery before and they used anesthetic, it does not hurt, it just makes you sleepy.
How do you use chloroform as an anesthetic?
It has not been used as an anesthetic for a long time for good reason: It can cause brain damage and has other serious side effects. It is not an approved anesthetic.
What does the anesthetic TAC contain?
A topical anesthetic mixture containing tetracaine, epinephrine (adrenaline), and cocaine.
What is a anesthetics?
the definition of anesthetic would be anesthetic- (n)a substance that causes loss of sensation or consciousnesshope
