RT Journal
A1 Kuehn BM
T1 FEntanyl patch warning
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD May 23
VO 307
IS 20
SP 2139
OP 2139
DO 10.1001/jama.2012.4764
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.4764
AB 
The agency recently analyzed 26 cases of such unintentional exposures over the past 15 years, many of which ended in hospitalization or death. More than half of the cases involved children 2 years old or younger. Such very young children are at particular risk of exposure because they are mobile and curious and may find lost, discarded, or improperly stored patches and put them in their mouth or on their skin, according to the agency. Children also may be exposed when a patch being worn by an adult is inadvertently transferred to a child who comes into contact with that person.