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Case Reports
. 2001 Sep;93(3):647-8.
doi: 10.1097/00000539-200109000-00023.

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

M A Frölich  1 , A Giannotti, J H Modell
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Opioid overdose in a patient using a fentanyl patch during treatment with a warming blanket

M A Frölich et al. Anesth Analg. 2001 Sep.

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  • Anesth Analg 2002 May;94(5):1172. Frölich M [corrected to Frölich MA]

Abstract

This 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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