Fentanyl Patches - What You Need to Know

There is increased uptake from a fentanyl patch with increasing temperature important to remember for patients who are febrile and then may develop increasing respiratory depression. Fentanyl can also be given transmucosally so there's a fentanyl lollipop for example the advantage here is that no depot builds up. It has about 50% bioavailability because a lot of the lollipop is actually being swallowed.