• Anesthesia and analgesia · Sep 2001

    Case Reports

    Opioid overdose in a patient using a fentanyl patch during treatment with a warming blanket.

    • M A Frölich, A Giannotti, J H Modell, and M Frölich.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, University of Florida Colleges of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, USA. froelich@anest.ufl.edu
    • Anesth. Analg. 2001 Sep 1; 93 (3): 647-8.

    ImplicationsThis case describes the narcotic overdose associated with the use of a fentanyl transdermal patch in a patient being rewarmed with an external warming blanket during surgery. The clinical manifestation and the presumed pharmacokinetic mechanism responsible for the fentanyl overdose are discussed.

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