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.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday December 31 2018, @09:18AM
Neither do Vancouver's.
In fact, a Vancouver EMT quite strenuously urged my new squeeze "Sarah" - not her real name - to reduce her doses because "someone just got a big shipment in".
I haven't heard from her in by now forty-eight hours. In the morning I'll right up the Medical Examiner; he they don't have her I'll start calling all the hospitals.
I'm smitten with her, and she and I are now An Item not because she's so hot - she looks like a supermodel, actually - but because she's so intelligent and educated.
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