Non-transport after Prehospital Naloxone Administration Is Associated with Higher Risk of Subsequent Non-fatal Overdose
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Uwe Stolz; Matthew R. Neth; Jason T. McMullan; Alexander Zozula; Andrew N. Hogan
- Source
- Prehospital Emergency Care. 26:272-279
- Subject
- Emergency Medical Services
medicine.medical_specialty
Naloxone
business.industry
Narcotic Antagonists
Reproducibility of Results
Emergency Nursing
Drug overdose
medicine.disease
Analgesics, Opioid
Opioid
Treatment Refusal
Emergency medicine
Emergency Medicine
medicine
Emergency medical services
Humans
Drug Overdose
business
Administration (government)
Retrospective Studies
medicine.drug
- Language
- ISSN
- 1545-0066
1090-3127
Objective: U.S. opioid overdoses increased nearly sixfold from 1999 to 2018, and greater than 1% of all emergency medical services (EMS) encounters now involve naloxone administration. While “treat...