Naloxone
The EMS1 naloxone topic includes a variety of news, information, videos and analysis about the growing opioid addiction epidemic and EMS response challenges and strategies, including overdose assessment, treatment strategies and trends, drug delivery models and more.
How to apply for grant funding for naloxone and opioid-reversal interventions and more
Our co-hosts dissect Editor-in-Chief Kerri Hatt’s recent article on fentanyl exposure based on her conversation with Simon Taxel, NRP, BA, crew chief and public safety diver with the Pittsburgh Bureau of EMS
Opioid settlement funding will continue for 11 to 18 years, and it is expected that more settlements will be forthcoming. Is your agency getting its share?
Noah Daughhetee, of IndivisibleOH8, said his group believes that “using Narcan on someone who overdosed is the humane thing to do”
Prescriptions are no longer needed for the medicine, which can be found at local pharmacies
The Akron Board of Education passed the motion as a proactive step toward preventing death by opioids
Investigators said she was unresponsive when police and paramedics arrived but was revived with a dose of naloxone
Our co-hosts discuss the “three strikes, you’re out” overdose rule a councilman proposed and how another county will soon distribute free naloxone
A new law requires all public schools to begin stocking the drug and training staff on how to administer it
Commissioners unanimously approved a measure to allow the health department to give away doses of the drug to anyone who completes state-certified training on how to use it
Douglas Adkins said no new method has been adopted and responders will continue to render aid
If an overdose victim has not performed community service on their third overdose, then responders would not be dispatched to the call
This vicious cycle experienced by many addicts has added a new facet to Ohio’s grim war against opioid abuse: compassion fatigue
Steve Sundquist said he has been sober since enrolling in a 75-day treatment program
More than 250 first responder agencies, public health departments and qualifying non-profit community groups across 35 states, have received donated EVZIO Auto-injectors
The city is on track to spend $100,000 on naloxone in 2017, despite a budget of $10,000
The city is running low on naloxone due to an increase in overdoses; officials said they need funding for more supplies
Thirty-eight percent of of overdoses from January to May occurred in public places
The current plan is to update training to make sure that first responders are aware of the risks posed by contact with fentanyl
Police said the man, who was involved in a car crash, had overdosed; he was arrested and charged with third-degree assault
Officials said 790 Arizonans died of opioid overdoses last year
A DEA special agent said that acrylfentanyl has shown some possibility of being resistant to naloxone
The report’s findings help identify when and where highly potent opioids are introduced into a community
An officer had to be revived with four doses of Narcan after he accidentally came into contact with fentanyl
EMS providers administered naloxone 136 times in 2016; the state of Illinois mandates that all responders carry naloxone
Gov. Paul LePage said people with allergies have “done nothing,” but have to pay for it
An unconscious patient, with absent or ineffective breathing, may be in sudden cardiac arrest or have overdosed on an opioid; here’s how to assess and treat the patient
What each form of fentanyl means for the user and first responder
An EMS executive director said their job is to save lives, not to decide if someone is worth resuscitating based on their likelihood of relapse
At a safe injection site, addicts would have access to clean needles, medical supervision and access to opioid antidotes that can reverse an overdose
In 2014, New Mexico had one of the highest overdose death rates in the nation, second only to West Virginia
Administering medications intranasally in the pre-hospital or emergency setting can be easy, fast and non-invasive
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