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5.5 Intravenous PCAMost authors use morphine as the opioid of choice beginning with a small dose (1mg ofmorphine) at patient request, with a lockout period (5 minutes) to prevent overdosing.However there are many side effects of morphine that has lead a vary of studies searchingfor the optimal opioid for PCA analgesia. Lenz et al. showed in their study that oxycodonewas more potent than morphine for visceral pain relief but not for sedation in patients afterlaparoscopic hysterectomy30.For abdominal hysterectomies in a teaching hospital in Mexico City a combination offentanyl (1mg) plus ketorolac (90-120mg of ketorolac) in a mix of 100cc of total volume isgiven to the patients at a rate of 0.4mcg/kg/hr of fentanyl with the same dose for patientrequest with a lockout of 30minutes16.
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