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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Sublingual Sufentanil for Outpatient Abdominal Surgery

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Pamela Palmer, MD, PhD

Orlando, Fla.—Sufentanil sublingual tablets effectively control acute pain after outpatient abdominal surgery.

Results from a multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled study suggest that 30-mg tablets are “efficacious and well tolerated across a variety of ambulatory surgery procedures for the management of moderate to severe acute postoperative pain,” said Pamela Palmer, MD, PhD, chief medical officer and co-founder of AcelRx Pharmaceuticals.

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