•    Better than NSAIDs for the post operative

•   Broad spectrum Analgesic

•   Prescribed under severe acute and chronic pain, diagnostic procedures and
    surgical pains.

It is analgesic which acts on opiate receptors in the C.N.S. to opiate like analgesia, but at therapeutic doses of 1mg/kg it does not produce respiratory depression or other side effects typical of an opiate analgesic. No drug dependence or tolerance occurs.