Tapentadol

Acute and chronic pain is a major problem with repercussion in our society, causing impairment in the quality of life of patients as well as socioeconomic losses, due to work absenteeism.

Nucynta is the brand name of the synthetic opioid tapentadol.

Tapentadol SR is a centrally acting opioid analgesic that binds to the mu-opioid receptor.

It has an analgesic potency approximately two to eight times greater than that of morphine and has a rapid onset of action.

It is used to treat moderate to severe pain that lasts for more than a few days.

Tapentadol immediate-release tablets are used as short-term treatment to relieve moderate to severe acute pain pain that begins suddenly, has a specific cause, and is expected to go away when the cause of the pain is healed that cannot be controlled by the use of alternative pain medications in adults and children 6 years of age and older who weigh at least 88 lb 40 kg.

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Nucynta ER tapentadol and Oxycontin oxycodone hydrochloride are opioid drugs used for the management of moderate to severe pain, usually for an extended time period.

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The potency of tapentadol is somewhere between that of tramadol and morphine, 5 with an analgesic efficacy comparable to that of oxycodone despite a lower incidence of side effects.

This medicine is an opioid painkiller.

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