A new way to give pain medicine after surgery
| Some smart guys decided that if fentanyl patches worked, why not use the same technology with a patient-controlled delivery system --- sort of a fentanyl patch with an on-demand component. We have had for many years patient controlled IV narcotic delivery systems (PCAs), and a transdermal delivery system would theoretically be similar. The FDA has approved the first such device, the Ionsys: |
Source: Blog of Aggravated DocSurg
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