A delirious patient with opioid intoxication after chewing a fentanyl patch [7]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1298-1299

  Van Rijswijk, Rein ^a   Van Guldener, Coen ^a  

^a AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ARTHROTEC; FENTANYL; GOSERELIN; HALOPERIDOL; LORAZEPAM; NALOXONE; OPIATE; RANITIDINE; RISEDRONIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; BONE PAIN; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; DELIRIUM; DRUG INTOXICATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; MALE; MASTICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PUPIL; SPINE METASTASIS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; DELIRIUM; FENTANYL; HUMANS; MALE; MASTICATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33746722095     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00832.x     Document Type: Letter

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