5th March 2024

A 60-year-old male patient, weighing 52 kilograms, takes morphine tablets 30 mg every 4 hours for pain management.

A 60-year-old male patient, weighing 52 kilograms, takes morphine tablets 30 mg every 4 hours for pain management. The physician decides to switch the patient to fentanyl transdermal patches. The relative analgesic ratio for oral morphine to transdermal fentanyl is 100:1.

What strength of fentanyl patch in μg/hour should the patient be prescribed to maintain a similar level of analgesia?