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elias7

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2. We have used fentanyl in the ER for decades

Reply to mucifer (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 3, 2017, 12:36 PM

Jul 2017

Rapid on, rapid off, primarily used IV/IM for extremely painful conditions, e.g. Long bone fractures, or for adjunct in heavy sedation. Only other form I'm aware of is the 72 hour patch for oncology or chronic pain patients, but I have prescribed that maybe once in the last ten years.

Don't know that there is an oral form.

Kind of confused by the report...I never raked in anything.

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Doctors raked in cash to push fentanyl as N.J. death rate exploded [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2017 OP

Sometimes fentanyl is the best choice for pediatric hospice patients with mucifer Jul 2017 #1

We have used fentanyl in the ER for decades elias7 Jul 2017 #2

I was talking about oral oxycodone, dilaudid and methadone. mucifer Jul 2017 #4

Right. I was just sharing our experience in the ED elias7 Jul 2017 #6

This is alarmist bullshit. Archae Jul 2017 #3

more woo? Skittles Jul 2017 #5