article thumbnail

Ep 116 Emergency Management of Opioid Misuse, Overdose and Withdrawal

Emergency Medicine Cases

Aaron Orkin discuss the latest in naloxone in opioid overdose cardiac arrest and altered LOA, a 5-step approach to ED opioid withdrawal management and how we can improve mortality and morbidity in patients with opioid use disorder in the era of the opioid epidemic.

Overdose 130
article thumbnail

"Call HazMat Before Opening"

FOAMfrat

Unlike other methods, such as firearms, hangings, intentional overdoses, and cutting, chemical suicides tend to linger in the area where the act was committed. Retrieved from Fire Engineering: [link] Minnesota Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM). 2014, 04 11). 2018, 05 21). Uncommon Etiologies of Shock.

article thumbnail

Wave 2024 Recap: Top 6 Key Topics in EMS & Fire Industries

ESO

Data is being put front-and-center in the fire services industry with the implementation of the new National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) by the U.S. Fire Administration. In Modernizing Fire & All-Hazards Incident Data and Analysis with NERIS by Rebecca Harned , Advisor, U.S.

MIH 105