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Hitting The Undo Button In The Ambulance

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Paramedic

An accidental opioid overdose and its nemesis, naloxone. With experience, plenty of ambulance personnel develop a habit of drafting an extrication plan while walking into every situation, depending on the level of chaos that greets us. Some start to sink in right from the early days of education. Follow Permalink

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Rock Bottom

Peter Canning

I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. The man’s hair is long and unmatted, his blue jeans are muddy and his books are wrapped with duct tape. They overdose behind the dumpster where I give them naloxone and put them in the ambulance. We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street. You found him.”