What is Scopolamine Patch?
Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, is available as a transdermal patch called Transderm Scop®. It comes in 1.5 mg dose that releases about 1 mg over a 72 hours period to reduce excessive saliva and oral secretions.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excess saliva | 18 |
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1 | ||||
| Vertigo | 3 |
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1 | ||||
| Drooling | 2 |
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1 | ||||
| Other | 1 |
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1 | ||||
| disease-related symptoms | 1 | 0 | |||||
| dry secretions | 1 | 0 |
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Side Effects
Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Did not seem to work
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7 | 58% |
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Side effects too severe
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3 | 25% |
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Other
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2 | 17% |
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Expense
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1 | 8% |
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Not indicated
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1 | 8% |
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Patient Evaluations
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- Boo Boo
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: none
- Chest: none
- Legs: none
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- Boo Boo
- 0.5 mg daily
- since Apr 01, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
Severe
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- lvinsman
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: moderate
- Arms: none
- Chest: none
- Legs: none
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- lvinsman
- 3 mg weekly
- since Feb 06, 2009
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Efficacy
Slight
for Drooling
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Side Effects
None
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- Dymond
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: None
- Cognition: none
- Vision: mild
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: none
- Walking: none
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- Dymond
- 1.5 mg all the time (24/7)
- since Jun 16, 2008
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Efficacy
None
for Vertigo
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Side Effects
None
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Report created on November 21, 2009.