Rapid Rx Quiz: Opioids

Fentanyl is associated with these adverse effects:

• Abdominal pain

• Abnormal coordination, dreams, gait, thinking

• Accidental injury

• Agitation

• Amnesia

• Angina pectoris

• Anorexia

• Anxiety

• Apnea

• Application-site reaction

• Asthenia

• Back pain

• Bradycardia

• Bronchitis

• Cardiac arrest

• Coma

• Confusion

• Constipation

• Depression

• Diarrhea

• Dizziness

• Dry mouth

• Dyspepsia

• Dysphoria

• Dyspnea

• Euphoria

• Faintness

• Fatigue

• Fever

• Flatulence

• Flushing

• Hallucinations

• Headache

• Hemoptysis

• Hiccups

• Hypoventilation

• Influenza-like symptoms

• Mental clouding

• Micturition disorder

• Myocardial infarction

• Nausea

• Nervousness

• Oliguria

• Paranoid reaction

• Paresthesia

• Pharyngitis

• Pruritus

• QT-interval prolongation

• Rash

• Respiratory arrest

• Respiratory/circulatory depression

• Rhinitis

• Sedation

• Seizures

• Severe cardiac arrhythmias

• Shock sinusitis

• Somnolence

• Speech disorder

• ST-segment elevation

• Sweating

• Syncope

• Tremor

• Upper respiratory tract infection

• Urinary retention

• Ventricular tachycardia

• Visual disturbances

• Vomiting

• Warmness of face/neck/upper thorax, urticaria

• Weakness

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Cite this: Mary L. Windle. Rapid Rx Quiz: Opioids - Medscape - Jul 08, 2022.