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The effect of acute morphine on obstructive sleep apnoea: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled crossover trial.
Thorax - 1 Feb 2019
Rowsell Luke, Wong Keith K H, Yee Brendon J, Eckert Danny J, Somogyi Andrew A, Duffin James, Grunstein Ronald R, Wang David
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Anaesthesiology guidelines suggest that opioids worsen obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) despite no randomised controlled trial evidence. We therefore conducted a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effects of a common clinical dose of morphine on OSA, and to identify clinical phenotype and genotype vulnerability to opioid-respiratory depression. METHODS: Under a double-blind, randomised,...
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