Step II Question on pain med

[undereducated]

Hello... it's my first post.

So let's say there's a terminal patient who's being taken care of in the hospital and he's on soooo much pain med that it leads to resp arrest. when he is revived, he tells the doc that he just doesn't want to live with the pain anymore. so what should the doc do?

continue to give the same dose of pain med?
or
decrease the pain med just enough so that the patient doesn't go into resp arrest?

 

[lord_jeebus]

same dose, if that's what his pain requires.

it would also be a good time to have a talk about DNR.