Is morphine in anyway used to help with pulmonary edema?

I was reading up on morphine in my IV book and it said something like "adjunt pulmonary edema". Didn't really understand it. Ever since day 1 of nursing school, we were taught about morphine and it's effect on respiratory system. anyways I thought about it and thought that maybe if a person has pulmonary edema and they are getting anxious (& hyperventilating) - they might give them morphine to calm them down and slow the respers...so that the respers could be more effective???? this is just a guess. But I was wondering why my book would say that, and the rationale behind it. THANKS!!!!

to lower blood pressure and try and get some of that fluid out of the lungs and the interstitiam back into the blood stream

Morphine is a respiratory repressant, so I'm not sure why your book would say this, unless there is great accompanying pain.

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