Diamorphine syringe driver

The Syringe Driver and Palliative Care Formulary. The British National injection if diamorphine at a concentration greater than 40 mg/ mL is mixed in the same syringe. If irritation remains a problem consider diluting the drugs further by using a larger volume syringe. Some people have diamorphine through a small needle put under the skin and connected to a pump called a syringe driver. The pump gives you a small amount of diamorphine continuously. A nurse changes the pump every 24 to 48 hours. As an injection into your vein. You might have diamorphine into your bloodstream. Drug combinations in syringe drivers: the compatibility and stability of diamorphine with cyclizine and haloperidol Palliat Med. May;11(3) doi: /Cited by:

• Diamorphine is the opioid of choice in syringe drivers because it is very soluble, allowing larger doses to be administered in smaller volume • As a starting dose, one third of the total oral morphine dose given to the patient over the previous injection if diamorphine at a concentration greater than 40 mg/ mL is mixed in the same syringe. If irritation remains a problem consider diluting the drugs further by using a larger volume syringe. If opioid-naïve, give diamorphine or morphine sulphate mg prn subcutaneously - if patient requires 3 prn doses over next 24 hrs, consider a syringe driver. The starting dose should not exceed 10 mg/24 hrs.

2 dic Cyclizine with diamorphine, once diamorphine dose exceeds mg/24 hours. It causes precipitation with saline and with diamorphine doses. Decide on the starting syringe driver dose over 24hours for a patient who up to now has been taking slow release morphine. Breakthrough pain can be treated with additional subcutaneous doses of the opioid being used (usually morphine). If possible, doses should be given through a.