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Intranasal fentanyl for children

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Sunshine Hospital has just commenced using intrasal fentanyl as an alternative analgesic for paediatric patients.

Here is a link to the policy (pdf format)

sunshine-intranasal-fentanyl-policy

and a link to the OzEMedicine wiki reference

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Tags: analgesics, fentanyl, opiates, Paediatrics

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