Fentanyl-Duragesic Pain Patch Documents

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• Fentanyl Transdermal Patch: Important Information for the Safe Use of Fentanyl Transdermal System (Patch) (FDA Safety Information)
  Original Publication Date: July 1st, 2009

  FDA is issuing this public health advisory to alert patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to important information on the safe use of the fentanyl transdermal system, also known as the fentanyl patch (marketed as Duragesic and generics).  The fentanyl patch …

• Fentanyl (Duragesic) Patches Recalled (FDA Patient Safety News)
  Original Publication Date: April 1st, 2008

  On March 3, 2008 Actavis recalled all remaining lots of Fentanyl transdermal patches as a precautionary measure. This is an expansion of Actavis’s February 2008 recall of fourteen lots of Fentanyl patches. For more details, see “Additional Information” below.

  Several …

• FDA Issues Second Safety Warning on Fentanyl Skin Patch
  Original Publication Date: December 21st, 2007

  Deaths and serious injuries from improper use

  The Food and Drug Administration today issued its second safety warning about the fentanyl transdermal system, an adhesive patch that delivers a potent pain medicine through the skin. In July 2005, the agency …