[Solved]: Your patient is difficult to arouse and…

Your patient is difficult to arouse and respirations are shallow @ 12/minute. The patient is receiving morphine by PCA with a basal (continuous) infusion at . Which statement is FALSE? To reverse the effects of the morphine: the physician orders small doses of naloxone ( ) IV, repeated at frequent intervals (2-3 minutes). in an emergency, a large dose of naloxone should be given. reversal is done slowly-too rapid a reversal may result in nausea, vomiting, sweating, tachycardia, and in post-op patients, VT and VF. if no change occurs after a total of 10 mg of naloxone has been administered, narcotic overdose should be questioned.