Procedures in patients with medication patches

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Haesuk Heagney
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Procedures in patients with medication patches

Could any of you share your Standards, Policies, and/or Guidelines regarding patients who come in for a procedure and has a medication patch on. Specifically, I am looking for the following:

1. Direction on situations requiring removal (ie. procedural sedation, MRI due to metallic content, when procedural site is occluded by the patch, etc.)

2. Documentation of removal or of continued therapy during procedure

3. If patch removal is indicated, destruction or storage process and its documentation

4. After the procedure, re-application, directions for next application from home supply, orders for on-site administration of new supply, and documentation

Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Haesuk Heagney, PharmD

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