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Oncologic emergencies
A practice question in the style of the MCCQE MCQ exam. Choose your answer to see the explanation.
A patient takes long-acting morphine 30 mg twice daily. What breakthrough dose is appropriate?
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The answer is D: Morphine 6 mg as needed.
Breakthrough doses are about 10% of the total daily dose (60 mg), so about 6 mg.
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