patient controlled analgesia การใช้

• Metopon tablets, ampoules, and suppositories are available in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and other countries in Continental Europe and the drug is used in Patient Controlled Analgesia pumps for severe chronic pain in particular.
• This includes subcutaneous, intramuscular, intravenously as part of a patient controlled analgesia setup, and as an already established epidural bolus administration ), is often used in the patient's own home, in order to treat severe pain in terminal illness.
• However using Toradol or PCA ( patient controlled analgesia ) with open surgery, many patients are almost pain-free and are very often discharged by the next evening, so that benefit of a robotic procedure on length of stay is obviated using Toradol or PCA.