Fentanyl is currently the "drug of choice" as IV pain med at our
hospital. Prior to Fentanyl we used Nubain. Fentanly has a
shorter half life and I personally have seen much *less* problems
with suck then when we were using Nubain. I would be interested
to read any studies about this. :)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Cindy 8/21/96 , 07:19:02
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