Procedural skills

Question 1

would you use a larger or smaller urinary catheter in a man who has prostatic hypertrophy?

Answer 1

larger

Question 2

if we needed to deliver 2 mg of morphine and the morphine you have is 10mg/1ml, how would you go about it?

Answer 2

1ml of morphine + 9ml of saline; this means that there is 1mg of morphine per 1ml. Hence to deliver 2mg, you deliver 2mls of diluted morphine