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SGEM#453: I Can’t Go For That – No, No Narcan for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Date: September 18, 2024 Reference: Dillon et al. August 20, 2024 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Chris Root is an emergency medicine and emergency medicine service (EMS) physician at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Naloxone is a well-established medication used primarily for reversing opioid overdoses. JAMA Network Open.

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Case Report: Acute Kratom Withdrawal

ACEP Now

He was admitted for a suspected kratom overdose and acute kratom withdrawal. 7 Most of the difficulty in identifying patients who have overdosed or are in acute withdrawal from kratom comes from the inability to test for it in commercial assays of blood or urine. link] Accessed December 4, 2024. He was discharged the next day.

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Fatal ODs Down Again

Peter Canning

The latest CDC provisional 12-month rolling numbers (through August 2024) are out for fatal overdoses and the news continues to be promising. The US reported overdose fatal numbers are down 23.2 % from the August 2023 high. * In Connecticut reported overdoses are down 29.9% Impressive.