33 hours ago CENTERVILLE – As you will hear in the following video, it was a life-threatening heroin overdose out in public which drew the urgent attention of bystanders and first responders earlier this evening. According to sources, it was also the first OD call of 2016 for Barnstable first … >> Go To The Portal
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Overdose (OD) happens when a toxic amount of a drug, or combination of drugs overwhelms the body. People can overdose on lots of things, including alcohol, Tylenol, opioids or a mixture of drugs.
If the overdose is opioid related, first responders need to inject naloxone intravenously for a quick reversal of the opioid overdose effects. Naloxone's effects last from 20 to 90 minutes and allow the patient to breathe again until he or she can receive further help.
(RCW 69.50. 315) You should give naloxone to anyone who has taken drugs and may be overdosing. Someone who is overdosing may stop breathing or their breathing may be slow and labored.
Naloxone acts in two to three minutes. If the person does not wake up in three minutes, bystanders should give a second dose. (Rescue breathing should be done while you wait for the naloxone to take effect so that the person gets oxygen to his or her brain.)
How to Respond to an OverdoseSTEP 1: CALL FOR HELP (CALL 911) ... STEP 2: CHECK FOR SIGNS OF OPIOID OVERDOSE. ... STEP 3: SUPPORT THE PERSON'S BREATHING. ... STEP 4: ADMINISTER NALOXONE (if you have access to it) ... STEP 5: MONITOR THE PERSON'S RESPONSE. ... Do's and Don'ts in Responding to Opioid Overdose.
Responding to Opioid OverdoseStimulate them awake by yelling their name and administering a hard sternum rub to the chest plate.If you have naloxone/Narcan, use it. ... Call 911, explain someone is not responsive and not breathing.Provide rescue breathing.More items...•
When administering naloxone:Recognize the signs and symptoms of an opioid overdose.Call for emergency medical assistance immediately.If the person's breathing stops, perform CPR if you are trained and it is safe for you to do so.Check for a medical alert tag to see if the person is known to be allergic to naloxone.More items...
Usage in Adults Opioid Overdose-Known or Suspected: An initial dose of 0.4 mg to 2 mg of NARCAN (naloxone) may be administered intravenously. If the desired degree of counteraction and improvement in respiratory functions are not obtained, it may be repeated at two- to three-minute intervals.
Prompt naloxone use can prevent progression from respiratory to cardiac arrest; increasing access to this life-saving drug is one way to prevent opioid-associated cardiac arrests.
Narcan isn't FDA-approved to treat seizures. And it's currently not used off-label for this purpose. However, seizures can sometimes be a symptom of tramadol overdose. (Tramadol is a partial opioid, meaning that it acts like an opioid in your body at certain doses.)
An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, with cases now confirmed in multiple countries.
On January 19, 2020, a 35-year-old man presented to an urgent care clinic in Snohomish County, Washington, with a 4-day history of cough and subjective fever. On checking into the clinic, the patient put on a mask in the waiting room.
Clinical specimens for 2019-nCoV diagnostic testing were obtained in accordance with CDC guidelines. 12 Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal swab specimens were collected with synthetic fiber swabs; each swab was inserted into a separate sterile tube containing 2 to 3 ml of viral transport medium.
Clinical specimens were tested with an rRT-PCR assay that was developed from the publicly released virus sequence. Similar to previous diagnostic assays for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), it has three nucleocapsid gene targets and a positive control target.
On January 7, 2020, Chinese researchers shared the full genetic sequence of 2019-nCoV through the National Institutes of Health GenBank database 16 and the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) 17 database; a report about the isolation of 2019-nCoV was later published.
The full genome sequences from oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal specimens were identical to one another and were nearly identical to other available 2019-nCoV sequences. There were only 3 nucleotides and 1 amino acid that differed at open reading frame 8 between this patient’s virus and the 2019-nCoV reference sequence (NC_045512.2).
Our report of the first confirmed case of 2019-nCoV in the United States illustrates several aspects of this emerging outbreak that are not yet fully understood, including transmission dynamics and the full spectrum of clinical illness.