re: Close relative is in hospice...(update page 5)

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I want to say the morphine was 500mls/4 hours. Can you give me an idea of what that would do to a healthy/conscious person? Does morphine generate changes in consciousness, or just dull pain?

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Hi my e-friend BSTx

so morphine comes in vials like 4 mg/ml and 10mg/ml for a standard IV push, but they also have pain pumps, which are loaded with larger volumes/dosages of the narcotic, and have guards on the pump to only allow for a certain amount of the drug to be given in predetermined intervals.

I'd need to know the mg dose of the morphine in the 500 ml of fluid.

so, while I cannot give you a completely accurate answer, I can say that MD's give an obscene amount of narcotics to hospice patients as they are in the final stages of dying.

To a healthy person, those doses would suppress our respiratory systems so much that we'd stop breathing and unless someone intervened, we'd eventually go into cardiac arrest and die long before ever becoming an addict.

And yes, it alters mental status in addition to pain management.