Intrathecal Morphine versus Intrathecal Hydromorphone for Analgesia after Cesarean Delivery

Abstract

Although the hypothesis was that intrathecal morphine would provide superior analgesia to intrathecal hydromorphone, the results did not confirm this. At the doses studied, both intrathecal morphine and intrathecal hydromorphone provide effective postcesarean analgesia when combined with a multimodal analgesia regimen.