Treatment of high-dose intrathecal morphine overdose. Case report.

摘要: The case is reported of a 45-year-old woman who was being treated for chronic back and right leg pain with intrathecal morphine administered via subcutaneous continuous-infusion device. She received an accidental 450-mg bolus injection intrathecally developed hypertension, status epilepticus, intracerebral hemorrhage, respiratory failure. Treatment continuous intravenous naloxone infusion, lumbar catheter drainage cerebrospinal fluid, control hypertension epilepticus resulted in excellent outcome return to neurological baseline. Care providers refill pump reservoirs must be knowledgeable about these devices the life-threatening consequences associated errors refilling them. This describes complications successful treatment high-dose overdose.