Stone P A, Macintyre P E, Jarvis D A
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia.
Br J Anaesth. 1993 Nov;71(5):738-40. doi: 10.1093/bja/71.5.738.
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) with i.v. opioids is prescribed increasingly. We report three cases of norpethidine toxicity in patients receiving pethidine by PCA.