The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 21, 2017

Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Guest Skeptic: Dr. Richard Hamilton (@RJHamiltonMD) is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? Clinical Toxicology 2017.

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The Skeptics' Guide to EM

JANUARY 19, 2019

The EMS crew observes drug paraphernalia and suspect an intravenous (IV) opioid overdose. He is alert and oriented times three with normal vital signs by the time he arrives in the emergency department. 1] Two-thirds of the all the drug overdoses in the US in 2016 (63,632) involved an opioid (42,249). [2]

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FOAMfrat

DECEMBER 26, 2024

IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE NEEDS HELP, CALL 988 OR SEEK CARE AT A LOCAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. Unlike other methods, such as firearms, hangings, intentional overdoses, and cutting, chemical suicides tend to linger in the area where the act was committed. TRIGGER WARNING: TOPICS OF SUICIDE MAY BE HARD FOR SOME PEOPLE TO READ ABOUT.

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