Sunday, September 27, 2009

Self-Regulated Morphine Delivery For Wounded Warfighters

Safer Pain Relief Wounded soldiers could soon administer their
own morphine without watchful medics U.S. Army


From Popular Science:

DARPA-funded nanotech drug automatically regulates its morphine dose on the battlefield

Medics still use morphine to relieve the pain of wounded soldiers on the modern battlefield, but have to watch out for morphine reducing breathing and blood pressure to dangerous levels. That may all change with a DARPA-backed combination drug that has successfully limited morphine delivery when it detects low blood oxygen levels.

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My Comment: Controlling my own morphine intake .... hmmmmm ....

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