Morphine Equivalent Dosing

Tracking Morphine Equivalent Dosing

morphine equivalent dosing

The primary side effect of opioid overdose is respiratory depression, which frequently leads to serious complications or death.
It helps to determine a patient’s cumulative intake of any drugs in the opioid class over 24 hours.

Minimize the potential for prescription drug abuse/misuse.
Reduce the number of unintentional overdose death.
In addition to, the Milligram Morphine Equivalent (MME) is a value assigned to opioids to represent their relative potencies.
Besides, the MED is the sum of the MME potency score of all opioids a patient is likely to take within 24 hours.
Additionally, the total is used to determine if the patient is nearing a potentially dangerous threshold.
Each opioid is given a potency score compared to morphine as a base level.