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REGIONAL ANESTHESIA AND PAIN MEDICINE

Naloxone-Resistant Respiratory Depression and Neurological Eye Symptoms After Intrathecal Morphine

Herbert Krenn, MD, PhD^*, Helmuth Jellinek, MD^*, Herbert Haumer, MD^*, Wolfgang Oczenski, MD^*, and Robert Fitzgerald, MD

*Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, City of Vienna Hospital Lainz; and Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Economics of Medicine in Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Vienna, Austria

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Herbert Krenn, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, City of Vienna Hospital Lainz, Wolkersbergenstraße 1, A-1130 Vienna. Address e-mail to krh{at}ana.khl.magwien.gv.at

Implications: We describe a case of neurological symptoms after the intrathecal use of an opioid. These symptoms were not reversible by the use of an opioid-antagonist.

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