Opioid conversion table hop16091451 croni ain anaeen tooli calculating total daily doses of opioids is important to appropriately and effectively prescribe, manage, and taper opioid. Apr 20, 2012 what is the conversion from 150 mcg fentanyl patches every 3 days. Smith is now unable to swallow and so the morphine needs to be converted into a transdermal fentanyl patch. Caution is required if opioid dose equivalence tables are used to guide opioid switching, as the administration of a calculated equivalent dose of the replacement opioid may lead to. Duragesic fentanyl is an excellent pain reliever, but should only be used by people whove tried other opioid pain medications and still need more relief. Fentanyl transdermal patch is a prescription medication thats used to treat chronic pain in opioidtolerant people. Morphine milligram equivalent mme calculator instructions. Challenges in pain management at the end of life american. Oct 01, 2001 challenges in pain management at the end of life. Advice should be sought from the palliative care team. Transdermal and parenteral fentanyl dosage calculations. Dilaudid hydromorphone is a powerful pain reliever that has significant risks for abuse and overdose. Im in a hosp so i feel a little safe if something goes wrong.
Both drugs work the same way in the body to relieve pain. Conversion algorithm for instructions on converting from one opioid to another. Transdermal and parenteral fentanyl dosage calculations and. Narcotic pain relievers also can be addictive and abused. Must prescribe shortacting opioid for breakthrough pain. Conversion from morphine or equivalent to fentanyl transdermal. Use of this table for conversion from fentanyl to other opioids can overestimate the dose of the new agent and may result in an overdosage. Enter 24hour total doses below, then click the convert button to display 24hour equianalgesic doses. Thank you for downloading opioid manager switching opioid form if the form does not start downloading in 10 seconds, please click here.
The table is based on oral dosing for chronic noncancer pain. Your patient is a 45yearold man who is taking oxymorphone 10 mg 4 times a day for chronic pain. This calculator, which is based roughly on information provided by janssen pharmaceuticals inc. Opioid oral morphine milligram equivalent mme conversion. Residual effects from discontinued longacting formulations should also be assessed before converting a patient to a new opioid. This calculator is intended for calculating the morphine equivalent dose med dose for a patient taking one or more opioid medications. Recommendations based on data contained in the package insert. Recommended conversion from oral daily hydromorphone equivalent to fentanyl is as follows. Dilaudid hydromorphone hydrochloride is an opioid narcotic pain reliever similar to oxycodone, morphine, methadone, fentanyl, and other opioid narcotic drugs.
Practical pain management is a remedy health media, llc web property. For each opioid, select the strength from the drop down menu and enter the number of tablets per day for fentanyl transdermal, see instructions below. Fentanyl transdermal patch duragesic is a prescription medication used to treat severe chronic pain such as cancer. What are the steps for converting from morphine or. What is the conversion from 150 mcg fentanyl patches every 3. In the recommended conversion, 1 mg of the fentanyl patch. The transdermal patch is a longacting formulation with a delayed onset of effect initially and a prolonged duration of action. Fentanyl patches durogesic for chronic pain nps medicinewise. When opioids are used for acute pain, clinicians should prescribe the lowest effective dose of immediaterelease opioids and should prescribe no greater quantity than needed for the expected duration of pain severe enough to require opioids. West of scotland chronic pain education group guidance on opioid switching. Pain intensity on a scale of 010, sedation on a scale of 03, and hourly pca administration microghr were assessed and recorded immediately prior to application of the fentanyl patch. Transdermal fentanyl isapproximately 80 times as potent as morphine this is based on studies converting from morphine to fentanyl. Fentanyl patch dosing determination based on current opioid therapy.
The 50, 75, and 100 mcghr patches should only be used in patients already on and tolerant to opioid therapy. Akin to the problem of converting patients from iv administration of fentanyl to the patch is the opposite scenario. This opioid dose equivalence table is intended for comparison of different opioid and opioid formulations in individual patients or in patient cohorts. Previous opioid should be tapered over first 12 hours of fentanyl as absorption is delayed.
My orientee asked me the other day which medication was stronger, and what is the advantage of using one over the other. Methadone is appropriate for chronic stable pain in an opioidtolerant patient, but is usually avoided in opiatenaive patients. Fentanyl and dilaudid hydromorphone hydrochloride are opioid analgesics used for control of moderate to severe pain fentanyl is often used for the management of breakthrough pain in cancer patients 18 years of age and older who are already receiving and who are tolerant to aroundtheclock opioid therapy for their underlying persistent cancer pain. Common and rare side effects for fentanyl transdermal. What is the conversion from 150 mcg fentanyl patches every. The equianalgesic tables for fentanyl have been adjusted, so you can use the doses given in the conversion to transdermal fentanyl duragesic fentanylmorphine conversion tables without further adjustment. Adapted from tarascon pocket pharmacopoeia created. Doses listed are equivalent to 10 mg of parenteral morphine. Canadian guideline for opioid use for pain appendix b8. C the conversion table is unidirectional only and should only be used to convert adult patients from their current oral or parenteral opioid analgesic to the approximate fentanyl transdermal patch for use in chronic pain. Side effects may include profuse sweating, coughing, nausea, diarrhea, and tearing. In other words, the conversion factor not accounting for days of use would be 6025 or 2.
Calculate the total 24hour morphine dose or morphineequivalent. Oral opioid dosing equivalents and conversions university of. Select microgram per hour dose of transdermal fentanyl based. Due to the risk of respiratory depression, the transdermal patch is for use in opioidtolerant patients only.
The total daily morphine milligram equivalents mme will be displayed. Principles of analgesic use in the treatment of acute pain and cancer pain. Dilaudid progresses to the point where the oral route is no longer tolerated. Caution is advised when converting to methadone due. John smith, a terminally ill lung cancer patient has pain that is well controlled on morphine sustained action, 90mg every 12 hours. Find information about common, infrequent and rare side effects of fentanyl transdermal. Equivalence between oral morphine and transdermal fentanyl. Opioid conversions calc single agent equianalgesic globalrph. Pain got worse so doc increased me to 6 mgs dil every 3 hrs and started fentanyl patch 25 mgs today to last 3 days. Conversion of intrathecal opioids to fentanyl in chronic pain. What is the conversion from 150 mcg fentanyl patches every 3 days. Duragesic fentanyl transdermal dosing, indications. The following doses and conversion factors are a guideline only and each patient must be assessed on an individual basis.
Do not use this table to convert from fentanyl transdermal system to other opioid analgesics because these conversion dosage recommendations are conservative. Typical pain doses of methadone are 1540 mgday, given in divided doses. Withdrawal symptoms, drug interactions, dosage, and pregnancy and breastfeeding safety are provided. Dilaudid, like other opioids, stimulates receptors on nerves in the brain to increase the threshold to pain increasing the amount of stimulation it takes to feel pain and reduce the perception of pain the perceived importance of the pain. Meperidine is nota recommended drug in a palliative care setting and is to be avoided. If a patient with chronic pain is on meperidine, convert patient to an equianalgesic dose of one of the other opioids listed in this table. A friend told her about a pain patch that worked well. Dec 15, 2001 demand boluses of iv fentanyl equivalent in dosage to 50100% of the final cii rate remained available via pca during the 24 hours after patch application.
Converting from oral morphine to fentanyl transdermal patch. Patch duration of effect 48 72 hrs takes 1224 hrs before full analgesic effect of patch occurs after application. Anne, who disliked taking pills and was interested in the convenience of changing a patch only every 3 days, made an appointment to see her family physician to discuss the transdermal fentanyl patch. Patients were converted to transdermal fentanyl patches, which were changed every. Both dilaudid and fentanyl can be habit forming even at prescribed doses. Dilaudid hydrolmorphone and fentanyl are narcotic opioid drugs used to manage of severe chronic pain, for example cancerrelated pain. Morphine milligram equivalent mme calculator nyc health. Transdermal should not be used to treat acute pain. Jan 29, 2018 longterm opioid use often begins with treatment of acute pain. Dr prescribed dilaudid and fentanyl patch, is this safe, don. It should not be used to determine doses when converting a patient from one opioid to another. It fentanyl and conversion from it morphinehydromorphone to it fentanyl have been challenging given the. Twostep titration weans patients from iv to patch fentanyl. Currently, there are no empirical studies converting fentanyl to morphine.
Do not use this table to convert from fentanyl transdermal system to other opioid analgesics because these. Each 2 mg po morphine approximately equivalent to 1 mcghr fentanyl patch e. How does one convert a patient on the patch to iv fentanyl in cases of breakthrough pain. Fentanyl patch converter globalrph conversion from. Methadone conversion factors increase with increasing dose. Opioid manager switching opioids download national pain centre. Remember to enter all opioids the patient is taking. Manage breakthrough pain with morphineshortacting opioid prn. Equianalgesic dosing of opioids for pain management. Oct 19, 2004 in my icu for sedation pain management we usually use fentanyl gtts, but recently i have been seeing more dilaudid gtts.
B initiation of fentanyl in patients who are opioidnaive is contraindicated at any dose. Kornick said the research team is now looking into the best procedure for accomplishing that task. Caution should be used in older adults or patients with cachexiafentanyl is lipid soluble and requires subcutaneous fat for proper absorption. Fentanyl patch converter globalrph conversion from other. The american pain society guidelines and most pain experts recommend a dose reduction between 2550% when converting between different opioids, 9, 11 with a consideration for little or no crosstolerance reduction in patients with poorly controlled pain. Fentanyl is dosed in mcghr instead of mgday, and absorption is affected by heat and other factors. A safe and effective method for converting cancer patients.
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