Health
Properly-equipped laypersons can potentially reverse opioid overdose mortality – EurekAlert
After tracking a cohort of community members equipped with naloxone and a smartphone application for more than a year, researchers showed that laypersons can effectively signal and respond to overdose incident to administer nasal naloxone in advance of emerge…
Without timely reversal, opioid overdose causes respiratory depression that may deteriorate into apnea, leading to brain injury and even death. Naloxone, a medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdose, can quickly restore normal respiration to a person whose breathing has slowed or stopped as a result of overdose with heroin or prescription opioid pain medications.
One of the major challenges in decreasing lethal opioid overdose is ensuring that naloxone reaches those in need at shor…
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