Naloxone use in a tiered-response emergency medical services system

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 468-471

  Belz, Daniel ^a   Lieb, Jacob ^a   Rea, Tom ^b   Eisenberg, Mickey S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Emergency Medical Services Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical technician; Heroin; Naloxone; Narcan; Opiate; Opioid; Overdose

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPIATE ADDICTION; PAIN; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SIDE EFFECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VIOLENCE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; OVERDOSE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 33748998767     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120600885134     Document Type: Article

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