The Current Status and Problem related to Accidents in Analgesic Trial

, Sang-Chul Kim

Original Article

Korean Journal of Legal Medicine 1990;14(2):66-68.

The Institute of Legal Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

It is not easy for physicians to evaluate objectively the mode of pains occuring in various kinds of diseases In the course of medical care, pain should be comprehensively estimated by means all information obtained from patients and medical records including family history, patient's past and present history, physical examination and laboratory data After getting all Information about pains from patient, medical practitioners should try analgesic trial to relieve the pain, but those who participate in analgesic medical care have to be careful of prescribing narcotic analgesics, especially such as morphine and Its analogues, because of dependency and unpredictable risks. Here is described the current status and problems related to incidents occurring in analgesic trials.