UI - 000119

AU - Pincus DF

TI - When and why I use pethidine

AB - Pethidine is a valuable drug in general practice. It is useful in the acute pain of trauma and renal or

biliary colic. It should be used by intramuscular injection, not orally. It should not be used for chronic pain,

malignancy, head injury, heart failure, undiagnosed acute abdominal pain and if opiate addiction is suspected

SO - Australian Family Physician 1991;20:392, 394-392, 39