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.
Medical Director and Emergency Physician Gene Hern explores the potential for treating patients with opioid use disorder with buprenorphine
Board certified emergency medicine physician Bryan Bledsoe says EMS providers rarely need to administer naloxone
Consider a variety of funding sources and make your case for why you need it, how you plan to use it and who will benefit
New research reveals why heroin overdose deaths doubled in two years, and the need for increased use of naloxone
About 60 to 70 Boulder police officers will be equipped with nasal atomizers to administer the drug, which reverses the effects of a heroin overdose
Just before the filming of a news segment, a WPXI photographer began CPR on a man he noticed slumped over in a vehicle
Each author explores the other side of impassioned debates on naloxone, endotracheal intubation, STEMI alerts, professionalism, and lecture-based education
There is ongoing concern about someone with little or no medical training administering naloxone to treat overdoses; is the risk worth the reward?
They want greater funding for addiction treatment and want to supply firefighters with Narcan
Research highlights the need for more basic EMS providers, especially in rural areas, to administer IN Narcan
Responders are administering several doses of Narcan each day, with an influx around the first of the each month
Responders believe an informational packet with recovery resources, along with a home outreach program, will help addicts recover
A 70 percent price hike has advocates worried it will limit the amount of narcan departments can afford to purchase
Manufacturer rebate is available for public agency naloxone purchases for next year
Police investigate possibility that Fentanyl was mixed with heroin to increase potency
A rapid rise in heroin overdoses has caused higher demand for the drug
Wisconsin EMS Association half-day workshop educates EMRs, EMTs and AEMTs to assess an opioid overdose and administer naloxone
Narcan manufacturer made similar agreement in N.Y.; Cost of Narcan has increased nearly 100 percent in 2 years
Wider distribution and increases in opiate use has led to more demand for the drug used to treat an overdose
Seven years ago, Massachusetts paid $22 per Narcan kit; today, that kit costs $42
Sometimes slower (and more deliberate) adoption of medical procedures may be better
The cost of the drug skyrocketed from $7 per bottle in 2014 to $98 per bottle in 2015
Heroin laced with fentanyl is especially potent and health officials see increase in suspected drug overdose deaths
The demand for the drug to counteract a heroin overdose is on the rise, which is driving up expenses for EMS
Bystanders rescued two unresponsive people from a burning car and performed CPR before EMS took over
After 1 year of having naloxone in tool kit fire department reports regular usage for narcotics overdoses
Injection or instranasal administration of naloxone for narcotics overdose increased in 2014
Stamford firefighters respond to every serious medical call in city; expected to complete narcotics overdose training by end of January
140 pharmacies in 22 counties have agreed to stock the overdose antidote
First use of narcotics overdose antidote since program began for firefighters that respond to all medical calls
The county purchased 900 doses to be distributed among 400 patrol cars from the 42 police agencies
A fire department in Ohio saw an increase of 55 percent in the past three weeks, from about $27 a dose to $42 a dose
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