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After Naloxone, When Can Opioid Overdose Patients Be Safely Discharged? Study Confirms One Hour Rule

posted by mrpg on Sunday December 30 2018, @05:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-to-know dept.

janrinok writes:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

  Naloxone has saved thousands of lives. But can patients be safely discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) just an hour after they receive the medication that curtails drug overdoses?

According to the St. Paul's Early Discharge Rule developed in 2000, that's how long providers should observe patients after naloxone treatment, so long as their vital signs meet specific criteria and they are ambulatory.

But the rule was never externally validated or assessed in light of the changes that have occurred in recent years with opioid use disorder.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:35PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @04:35PM (#779985)

    What does an overdose do when you use naloxone save their life? They scream at you, they swear at you, they spit at you. Because you wrecked their high.

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday December 31 2018, @02:18AM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday December 31 2018, @02:18AM (#780138) Journal

    No one says medicine has to be clean and pretty. Try and think about what kind of mental place these poor people are in, or were in before they started using. Sorry, pal, but you don't get to condemn people to the scrapheap just because you don't like them. Users are still human, just as human as you, and I think you know this and that's what terrifies you. That. Could. Be. You.

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    I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @06:45AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @06:45AM (#780170)

    Perhaps what is needed is a drug to make a person allergic to these drugs

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday December 31 2018, @09:23AM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday December 31 2018, @09:23AM (#780203) Homepage Journal

      I Am Absolutely Serious: there just had to be _some_ reason I was the only kid in my school to get hay fever in the spring of '81.

      That I'm allergic to hemp pollen turned up when my parents grew weary of my endless sneezing and so had my allergies tested.

      I figure someone's Jesus Big grow-op had just blossomed in the nearby Suisun Marsh, a part of the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Deltas.

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      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]