JEMS

JULY 7, 2025

This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year. Of the groups with positive findings, Sp02 increased on average from 89.6% Individual agencies are dispatched via a common communications center using commercially available Emergency Medical Dispatch software.

E-9-1-1

Peter Canning

JUNE 25, 2025

” –Boston paramedic This is a quote I included in a presentation I put together for the state of Connecticut back in 2014 when we designed a curriculum to teach BLS providers how to use naloxone. Naloxone is for depressed respirations, not depressed mental status. Some of the people who are given naloxone don’t need naloxone.

Overdose

EMDocs

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Naloxone administration may reverse respiratory arrest, preventing progression to cardiac arrest. Editorial Comment: Naloxone first, flumazenil only for pure benzo’s (e.g., Editorial Comment : Use standard BLS/ALS measures, especially if in cardiac arrest. COR No Benefit, LOE C-EO. COR Harm, LOE B-R. if used for sedation).

Naloxone

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

MAY 21, 2017

Do heroin overdose patients require observation after receiving naloxone? He is also the host of EMToxCast and gave a talk at the Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine Annual Retreat […] The post SGEM#179: Chase the Dragon and Naloxone first appeared on The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine. Clinical Toxicology 2017.

Naloxone

Peter Canning

OCTOBER 30, 2023

I am in the fly car and a BLS crew is in the ambulance. I don’t see anyone on two passes, but then I hear the BLS unit radio they’ve found him. They overdose behind the dumpster where I give them naloxone and put them in the ambulance. We’re dispatched to an overdose on Ashley Street. He used to own his own construction company.

Overdose

Peter Canning

JUNE 28, 2025

A BLS unit just called for a medic for seizures, but they dispatched someone else. I also collected several syringes to dispose of in the ambulance’s sharps box and found a couple empty naloxone nasal injectors. I intercepted with a BLS crew for an unresponsive diabetic. We’re a little more than halfway through the shift.

BLS