April 27, 2016
By Sudhin Thanawala
San Francisco — Fourteen people in the Sacramento, California, (click here) area have fatally overdosed on a pill disguised as a popular painkiller, and now the drug has turned up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Area hospitals have treated seven patients who ingested what they thought was the painkiller Norco in recent weeks, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The patients all survived, though at least some experienced nausea, vomiting and difficulty breathing.
The pills were adulterated with fentanyl, the powerful opioid....
Fentanyl is a very powerful drug. How powerful?
Fentanyl is an opioid medication. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic.
Fentanyl is used as part of anesthesia to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedure.
People with intractable pain use Fentanyl safely IN A TRANSDERMAL PATCH. The injectable variety is used ONLY in anesthesia.
Below are dosage strength.
Applies to the following strength(s) (click here) : 50 mcg/mL ; 1200 mcg ; 200 mcg ; 400 mcg ; 600 mcg ; 800 mcg ; 100 mcg ; 300 mcg ; 1600 mcg
For a in hospital drip: 25 mcg/hr ; 50 mcg/hr ; 75 mcg/hr ; 100 mcg/hr
2 mcg/mL-0.9% (normal saline) ; 5 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 10 mcg/mL
0.9% (0.9 percent is the FORMULA abbreviation for normal saline FLUID); 20 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 12 mcg/hr ; 37.5 mcg/hr ; 62.5 mcg/hr ; 87.5 mcg/hr
1.5 mg/mL ; 2.5 mg/mL (these are mixing ratios) ; 100 mcg/inh ; 400 mcg/inh ; 5 mcg/mL-D5% ; 25 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 4 mcg/mL-D5%
1000 mcg/250 mL-NaCl 0.9% ; 40 mcg/mL (1000 micrograms per 250 milliliters of Normal Saline at a concentration of 40 micrograms per milliliter)
NaCl 0.9% ; 40 mcg/dose ; 150 mcg/30 mL-D5% ; 100 mcg/10 mL-D5% ; 300 mcg/30 mL-D5%
1250 mcg (microgram)/50 mL (milliliter)-D5%
2500 mcg/250 mL-D5%
Kindly notice the strength of Fentanyl is in mcg (micrograms) not mg (milligrams).
The amount of Fentanyl needed to achieve sedation is extremely small.
1 milligram = 1 milliliter
Fentanyl can be mixed with natural body fluids like one liter (1000 milliliter) or one half liter (500 milliter) or one-fourth liter (250 milliliter) of normal saline or 5% dextrose for a drip used in the hospital in managing pain.
The dosages are extremely important in administering the drug without harming the patient.
Fentanyl should never be considered an enhancement to any street drugs. Fentanyl is deadly when not respected for it's intense property of pain relief. There is NO SAFE dosage for oral consumption.
By Sudhin Thanawala
San Francisco — Fourteen people in the Sacramento, California, (click here) area have fatally overdosed on a pill disguised as a popular painkiller, and now the drug has turned up in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bay Area hospitals have treated seven patients who ingested what they thought was the painkiller Norco in recent weeks, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The patients all survived, though at least some experienced nausea, vomiting and difficulty breathing.
The pills were adulterated with fentanyl, the powerful opioid....
Fentanyl is a very powerful drug. How powerful?
Fentanyl is an opioid medication. An opioid is sometimes called a narcotic.
Fentanyl is used as part of anesthesia to help prevent pain after surgery or other medical procedure.
People with intractable pain use Fentanyl safely IN A TRANSDERMAL PATCH. The injectable variety is used ONLY in anesthesia.
Below are dosage strength.
Applies to the following strength(s) (click here) : 50 mcg/mL ; 1200 mcg ; 200 mcg ; 400 mcg ; 600 mcg ; 800 mcg ; 100 mcg ; 300 mcg ; 1600 mcg
For a in hospital drip: 25 mcg/hr ; 50 mcg/hr ; 75 mcg/hr ; 100 mcg/hr
2 mcg/mL-0.9% (normal saline) ; 5 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 10 mcg/mL
0.9% (0.9 percent is the FORMULA abbreviation for normal saline FLUID); 20 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 12 mcg/hr ; 37.5 mcg/hr ; 62.5 mcg/hr ; 87.5 mcg/hr
1.5 mg/mL ; 2.5 mg/mL (these are mixing ratios) ; 100 mcg/inh ; 400 mcg/inh ; 5 mcg/mL-D5% ; 25 mcg/mL-0.9% ; 4 mcg/mL-D5%
1000 mcg/250 mL-NaCl 0.9% ; 40 mcg/mL (1000 micrograms per 250 milliliters of Normal Saline at a concentration of 40 micrograms per milliliter)
NaCl 0.9% ; 40 mcg/dose ; 150 mcg/30 mL-D5% ; 100 mcg/10 mL-D5% ; 300 mcg/30 mL-D5%
1250 mcg (microgram)/50 mL (milliliter)-D5%
2500 mcg/250 mL-D5%
Kindly notice the strength of Fentanyl is in mcg (micrograms) not mg (milligrams).
The amount of Fentanyl needed to achieve sedation is extremely small.1 milligram = 1 milliliter
Fentanyl can be mixed with natural body fluids like one liter (1000 milliliter) or one half liter (500 milliter) or one-fourth liter (250 milliliter) of normal saline or 5% dextrose for a drip used in the hospital in managing pain.
The dosages are extremely important in administering the drug without harming the patient.
Fentanyl should never be considered an enhancement to any street drugs. Fentanyl is deadly when not respected for it's intense property of pain relief. There is NO SAFE dosage for oral consumption.
