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2023 AHA Update on Management Cardiac Arrest or Life-Threatening Toxicity Due to Poisoning

EMDocs

Naloxone administration may reverse respiratory arrest, preventing progression to cardiac arrest. Editorial Comment: Naloxone first, flumazenil only for pure benzo’s (e.g., Editorial Comment : Use standard BLS/ALS measures, especially if in cardiac arrest. COR No Benefit, LOE C-EO. COR Harm, LOE B-R. if used for sedation).

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Rock Bottom

Peter Canning

I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. I don’t see anyone on two passes, but then I hear the BLS unit radio they’ve found him. 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. He used to own his own construction company.

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SGEM#179: Chase the Dragon and Naloxone

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? He is also the host of EMToxCast and gave a talk at the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine Annual Retreat […] The post SGEM#179: Chase the Dragon and Naloxone first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Clinical Toxicology 2017.

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