[PDF] Rapid Response Guide To Opioid Emergencies eBook

Author : Greg Clarkes
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Opioid abuse
ISBN : 9781550598414

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If you are prepared, you can save lives. In the current opioid epidemic, opioid emergencies can arise without warning, among those we didn't expect to be affected. This guide shows you how to prepare and what to do. It describes the equipment you need, and the step-by-step procedures you need to know to care for a person in crisis and keep yourself safe. As a rescuer, you may have training in opioid emergency response through your job, or you may have no formal training. This guide is for everyone. In an easy-to-scan format, it breaks down information by level of expertise. Use this guide to build on the expertise you have, or to build the expertise you need.

Author : Greg Clarkes
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2020-03-02
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This Rapid Response Guide is for everyone. Build on the expertise you have as a first responder, or build the expertise you need to deal with opioid emergencies. This guide shows you how to prepare for opioid emergencies and what to do when confronted with one. It describes the equipment you need to have on hand and the step-by-step procedures you need to know to care for a person in crisis while keeping yourself safe. Greg Clarkes is an Advanced Care Paramedic registered in Canada and the USA, with over 35 years as an educator. He is a previous winner of the National Association of EMT's Instructor of the Year.

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Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781582554303

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Dette er en håndbog om skadestuearbejde, hvor man hurtigt kan slå symptomer og tegn op i forbindelse med akutte tilstande inden for en række sygdomsområder. Der gives praktiske tips og anvisninger på, hvordan sygeplejersker imødegår kritiske situationer, således at patienten stabiliseres.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309459575

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Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.

Author : Pharmacy Joe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 2016-07-20
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ISBN : 9781535333382

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Fewer patients die in the hospital when pharmacists participate on hospital medical emergency teams (Bond 2007). This book is for hospital pharmacists who want to learn and refine the clinical skills necessary to be a valuable member of the hospital code blue / medical emergency team. Each chapter contains actionable, concise training on the role of the pharmacist during specific adult inpatient medical emergencies including: Code Blue Rapid Response Shock Sepsis Anaphylaxis Endotracheal Intubation Stridor Methemoglobinemia Massive Pulmonary Embolism Status Epilepticus Acute Agitation Severe Alcohol Withdrawal Opioid Overdose Hypertensive Emergency Severe Hyperthermia Hypoglycemia Hyponatremia from SIADH Hyperkalemia

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Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Drug addiction
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The purpose of this plan is to provide a comprehensive plan to address the opioid epidemic that maximizes available resources to achieve desired outcomes through coordinated efforts with federal, state, and local agencies, stakeholders, and private sector partners. The plan adopts a statewide approach to the opioid emergency with our partners and includes overarching planning assumptions, roles and responsibilities, concept of the operations, focus areas for implementation, and plan review and assessments.

Author : World Health Organization
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789241548816

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An estimated 69000 people die each year from opioid overdose. Opioid overdose is easily reversed with the opioid antidote naloxone and with basic life support. Such care is generally only available in medical settings, however. These guidelines recommend that people who are likely to witness an opioid overdose, including people who use opioids, and their family and friends should be given access to naloxone and training in its use so that they can respond to opioid overdose in an emergency if a medical response is not available. Naloxone can be injected or administered intra-nasally and has minimal effects in people who have not used opioids. While naloxone administered by bystanders is a potentially life-saving emergency interim response to opioid overdose, it should not be seen as a replacement for comprehensive medical care.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 030949687X

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The opioid overdose epidemic combined with the need to reduce the burden of acute pain poses a public health challenge. To address how evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for acute pain might help meet this challenge, Framing Opioid Prescribing Guidelines for Acute Pain: Developing the Evidence develops a framework to evaluate existing clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for acute pain indications, recommends indications for which new evidence-based guidelines should be developed, and recommends a future research agenda to inform and enable specialty organizations to develop and disseminate evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids to treat acute pain indications. The recommendations of this study will assist professional societies, health care organizations, and local, state, and national agencies to develop clinical practice guidelines for opioid prescribing for acute pain. Such a framework could inform the development of opioid prescribing guidelines and ensure systematic and standardized methods for evaluating evidence, translating knowledge, and formulating recommendations for practice.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309486483

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The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.