Remove Naloxone Remove OR Remove STEMI
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Protocol Change

Peter Canning

For instance, there was no protocol for stroke or STEMI. Naloxone was given for coma of unknown etiology; sodium bicarb for cardiac arrests of unknown downtime. We carried Cardizem for rapid a-fib, fentanyl for pain, intranasal naloxone, and Haldol and midazolam for violent emotionally disturbed patients.

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Opiate overdose, without chest pain or shortness of breath. Cognitive dissonance.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

He awoke with naloxone. Discharge Diagnosis was STEMI (The STE did not meet "criteria," so "OMI" would be better, but "STEMI" is far better than what this could have been called: NonSTEMI) Quotes from a note written by a really fine and knowledgable physician: "12-lead EKG was obtained initial 1 at time zero.