http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/09/04/fentanyl-patch-danger/ Malpractice, Personal Injury & Accident Lawyers Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:37:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/09/04/fentanyl-patch-danger/#comment-803 sandra Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:08:49 +0000 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/09/04/fentanyl-patch-danger/#comment-803 My fiancee suffers from neck cancer and is being treated at the cancer center in philadelphia pennsylvania . She was perscibed fentanyl I.V.for pain ..she was put on set dose controoled by pain management personell.The regular staff that is there all week is not there on weekends. On may 22nd she suffered a slight problem with thedose she was on .They stopped the medicine ,and waited for her to become more alert .They felt the dose was set to high ,the dose was 300mcg. per hour.. There answer was to set thedose much lower.What happened next is a disaster.Three days later the on call Dr . comes in and without even reviewing what took place three days prior ,,decides to put the dose up twice as high as needed.. Within 1/2 hour my wife starts siezing and becomes completely unresponsive . They rush her into I.C.U where her blood pressure becomes life threatening low ..They try to reverse the drug overdose and she remains unresponsive for the next three days..when she finnally wakes up she is delirous and acting out terribly ..she has yet to fully regain all her mental state..i have documentation stating that she was given to much medication and caused this from another Dr. who works at the same facility..can you please call me and let me know if its worth pursueing . Because it set herback another month in the hospital she contracted sepsis,,,then staph,,the c. defficile ,then pnuemonia , After all this time in bed she now has become so de-conditioned please review this it would be greatly appreciated Sincerly yours. My fiancee suffers from neck cancer and is being treated at the cancer center in philadelphia pennsylvania . She was perscibed fentanyl I.V.for pain ..she was put on set dose controoled by pain management personell.The regular staff that is there all week is not there on weekends. On may 22nd she suffered a slight problem with thedose she was on .They stopped the medicine ,and waited for her to become more alert .They felt the dose was set to high ,the dose was 300mcg. per hour.. There answer was to set thedose much lower.What happened next is a disaster.Three days later the on call Dr . comes in and without even reviewing what took place three days prior ,,decides to put the dose up twice as high as needed.. Within 1/2 hour my wife starts siezing and becomes completely unresponsive . They rush her into I.C.U where her blood pressure becomes life threatening low ..They try to reverse the drug overdose and she remains unresponsive for the next three days..when she finnally wakes up she is delirous and acting out terribly ..she has yet to fully regain all her mental state..i have documentation stating that she was given to much medication and caused this from another Dr. who works at the same facility..can you please call me and let me know if its worth pursueing . Because it set herback another month in the hospital she contracted sepsis,,,then staph,,the c. defficile ,then pnuemonia , After all this time in bed she now has become so de-conditioned please review this it would be greatly appreciated Sincerly yours.

]]> http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/09/04/fentanyl-patch-danger/#comment-802 Rhonda Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:56:58 +0000 http://www.youhavealawyer.com/blog/2007/09/04/fentanyl-patch-danger/#comment-802 Been on fentanyl patch since 4.09.two years ago I weighed 137lbs. I weigh 103 now. Can't travel,can't do hardly any work. Only run sweeper&fill dishwasher.Mom read article that this patch made pain worse and it could kill you. Anyone hear of this?I've been fighting it!!!!!!!!! I went to a real good chiro who says he thinks I have a csf leak,causn headaches.I always had but now they are so severe I can't cope. HELP! Been on fentanyl patch since 4.09.two years ago I weighed 137lbs. I weigh 103 now. Can’t travel,can’t do hardly any work. Only run sweeper&fill dishwasher.Mom read article that this patch made pain
worse and it could kill you. Anyone hear of this?I’ve been fighting it!!!!!!!!!
I went to a real good chiro who says he thinks I have a csf leak,causn
headaches.I always had but now they are so severe I can’t cope.
HELP!

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