John wakes up in a hospital to find that he had been in an accident that required major surgery to pin his legs back together. He is told that he has a patient controlled analgesia pump with morphine, which he recognizes as a pure opiate agonist. Is he likely to be able to achieve good pain control?
A) Possibly, but only if the surgeon also gave him a nerve block.
B) Probably not, unless that he also has PRN pain medications.
C) No. Morphine is not that effective for pain control.
D) Yes. Morphine does not have a ceiling to its analgesic effects.
D
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