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Brand Names: Transderm Scop
See also: Scopolamine

What is Scopolamine Patch? Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, is available as a transdermal patch called Transderm ScopĀ®. It comes in 1.5 mg dose that releases about 1 mg over a 72 hours period to reduce excessive saliva and oral secretions.

See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.


Reasons Taken

3 patients in the community are taking or have taken Scopolamine Patch.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Vertigo 1 33%
disease-related symptoms 1 33%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Scopolamine Patch.

  1.5 mg Daily
  1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Scopolamine Patch or how long patients were taking Scopolamine Patch before stopping.

Stopped taking Scopolamine Patch

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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Why Patients Stopped Taking Scopolamine Patch (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Did not seem to work 2 100% Did not seem to work: 100%
Expense 1 50% Expense: 50%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 1 patient evaluation. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

None 100% 1

Vertigo

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 0% 0
None 100% 1

Top reported side-effects include: skin irritation

Summary results are based on 1 individual response. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 1)

  • Dymond
    Sex: F
    Sensation: Moderate
    Overall: None
    Cognition: none
    Vision: moderate
    Speech: none
    Swallowing: mild
    Upper limb: none
    Walking: none
  • Dymond
  • by Dymond
    Jun 16, 2008
  • EfficacyNone
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Vertigo

See all evaluation results for Scopolamine Patch



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