Solution for injection - (1%) 10 mg/ml

Morphine is a narcotic analgesic that causes analgesia mainly centrally than peripherally in the perception of pain. It also acts in the smooth muscles by increasing the tonus, especially of the sphincters of the gastrointestinal tract by reducing peristalsis. The pharmacological effects of morphine are: analgesia, drowsiness, behavioral changes (euphoria), lowering of body temperature and depending on the dose even respiratory depression.

Morfine is used in:

• the relief of moderate to severe pain, in malignant tumors, after severe trauma, after surgeries and myocardial infarction;
• cardiac asthma;
• acute pulmonary oedema;
• peripheral vascular obstruction;
• traumatic shock;
• pulmonary embolism;
• abdominal, renal and biliary colics;
• pretreatment before general anaesthesia.

Morphine is also used in other emergencies such as in left ventricular failure, abdominal perforation and haematemesis.

Morphine alleviates the anxiety associating severe pain and it is used as hypnotic in case sleeplessness is caused by pain.