Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 151-153 , December 2006

A new needle-free PCA system: The fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system

  • Richard M. Langford

      Affiliations

    • Anaesthetic Laboratory, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, United Kingdom
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 20 7601 7524; fax: +44 20 7601 7524.
  • Narinder Rawal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Örebro University Hospital, Örebro, Sweden

Received 25 August 2006

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PII: S1366-0071(06)00120-3

doi: 10.1016/j.acpain.2006.08.044

Acute Pain
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 151-153 , December 2006

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