Scenario 3 for the Drug OSCE

Mr Green is a great deal of pain following his operation. The doctor has prescribed Morphine 10mg IM as analgesia. (painkiller)


Route: IM: intra-muscular

Side effects:
The most dangerous is respiratory depression(a decrease in the number of breaths and the depth of breathing.)

nausea and vomiting because it stimulates the chemotactic trigger zone which is one of the centre in the brain that trigger this action.