Morphine for facial/airway burns.

[Carlos Danger]

(one of the reasons I like morphine over fent is because it more gradually loses effect over time)

This is a really good point, which I don't think I've ever considered.

Some services opposed to giving their medics neuromuscular blocks, still have high dose benzo admin to knock the patient down to the point of intubation. Which I think is foolish because it does the same thing in a less optimal and less safe way.

The idea of disallowing NMB's (ostensibly because neuromuscular blockade "is dangerous"), yet allowing such high doses of sedatives that respiratory drive and airway reflexes are mitigated anyway - yet good intubating conditions are anything but assured - drives me absolutely insane.

But that's a whole other topic for a whole other thread

 

[Veneficus]

Just some things to add to the discussion

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22094498

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19573904

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22965460

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23118665

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23114234

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3461283/