2015
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2015.2.24909
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Opioid Education and Nasal Naloxone Rescue Kits in the Emergency Department

Abstract: IntroductionEmergency departments (EDs) may be high-yield venues to address opioid deaths with education on both overdose prevention and appropriate actions in a witnessed overdose. In addition, the ED has the potential to equip patients with nasal naloxone kits as part of this effort. We evaluated the feasibility of an ED-based overdose prevention program and described the overdose risk knowledge, opioid use, overdoses, and overdose responses among participants who received overdose education and naloxone res… Show more

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“…Since the early 2000s, nasal naloxone has been used off-label by ambulance personnel (Barton et al, 2005(Barton et al, , 2002Belz et al, 2006;Kelly et al, 2005;Kerr et al, 2009;Merlin et al, 2010;Robertson et al, 2009;Weber et al, 2012) and in the emergency department (Sabzghabaee et al, 2014). More recently, improvised nasal kits (consisting of a prefilled naloxone syringe and an atomizer which fits onto the syringe to generate a nasal spray) have been provided to opioid users, peers, and families in take-home naloxone trials (Doe-Simkins et al, 2009;Dwyer et al, 2015;Walley et al, 2013aWalley et al, , 2013b, and succesful overdose reversals using improvised nasal kits have also been reported for police first responders (Rando et al, 2015). However, the only published pharmacokinetics study in humans found intranasal naloxone (2mg/5ml) had a relative bioavailability of only 4% (Dowling et al, 2008).…”
Section: Sublingualmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Since the early 2000s, nasal naloxone has been used off-label by ambulance personnel (Barton et al, 2005(Barton et al, , 2002Belz et al, 2006;Kelly et al, 2005;Kerr et al, 2009;Merlin et al, 2010;Robertson et al, 2009;Weber et al, 2012) and in the emergency department (Sabzghabaee et al, 2014). More recently, improvised nasal kits (consisting of a prefilled naloxone syringe and an atomizer which fits onto the syringe to generate a nasal spray) have been provided to opioid users, peers, and families in take-home naloxone trials (Doe-Simkins et al, 2009;Dwyer et al, 2015;Walley et al, 2013aWalley et al, , 2013b, and succesful overdose reversals using improvised nasal kits have also been reported for police first responders (Rando et al, 2015). However, the only published pharmacokinetics study in humans found intranasal naloxone (2mg/5ml) had a relative bioavailability of only 4% (Dowling et al, 2008).…”
Section: Sublingualmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…57 Ten strategies had a negligible or no impact on overdoses and deaths. 35,41,49,52,68,70,75,76,81,93 Five strategies had a small positive effect, 48,50,53,62,94 two had a moderate positive effect, 55,56 and four had a large positive effect, 60,63,69,82 which included (1) overdose prevention training and naloxone distribution, plus a change in the legal status of naloxone to permit its administration by any member of the public Most promising strategies by content and target audience Figure 5a and 5b show the impact of the strategies by content and target population. It suggests that the most promising strategies to improve appropriate use of opioids are (1) educational strategies aimed at health care professionals; (2) clinical strategies aimed at patients, opioid users, and health care professionals; and (3) collaborations.…”
Section: Impact On Overdose and Deathsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Public emergency occur and therefore, how to safely admit to hurt the wounded, orderly, efficient has always been an important task to all levels of hospital. Nursing is an important part of hospital emergency treatment work, must establish perfect and scientific system of emergency treatment that can improve the ability of nurses of the emergency rescue which is important [1][2][3].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%