Are heroin overdose deaths related to patient release after prehospital treatment with naloxone?

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 183-186

  Vilke, G M ^a   Buchanan, J ^a   Dunford, J V ^a   Chan, T C ^a  

^a UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Against medical advice; Deaths; Drug abuse; Heroin; Naloxone; Narcan; Overdose; Paramedic; Prehospital; Release

Indexed keywords

ANTIDOTE; DIAMORPHINE; NALOXONE; OPIATE;

ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; DEATH; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL;

EID: 0032810686     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903129908958933     Document Type: Article

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