Emergency Medical Services Naloxone Overdose 
JEMS
JULY 17, 2025
Murphy JD, MS, PA-C, EFO 5 min read Share To: Shutterstock/Fineart1 Emergency medical services (EMS) are essential in delivering timely care during medical crises. 1 Self-driving ambulances represent another emerging technology. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine , 25(1), 43.
JEMS
JULY 17, 2025
TNS) A Lacey firefighter saved a puppy exposed to fentanyl by giving it naloxone at the Nisqually Reservation Tuesday morning. Schmidt said Craig assessed the situation and decided to give the puppy a small dose of naloxone that Nisqually police carried. “He Bryce Craig sprang into action to help the puppy.
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JEMS
JULY 7, 2025
7 min read Commentary EMS Training EMT Training Exclusives Paramedic Training EMS EMS Education EMT National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians Paramedic GA County Launches Narcan Vending Machine The machine, stocked with roughly 120 boxes of medication, is open 24 hours a day.
JEMS
JUNE 16, 2025
She and her circle of friends might be certain health challenges, and they would want their own wishes to be honored by emergency medical service personnel. Epic is the technological version of Shangri-Lah, Neverland or Valhalla for Mobile Medical professionals: they laud it, pine for it, yet often misunderstand or misuse it.
JEMS
JUNE 25, 2025
Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/TNS) Nick Coltrain – The Denver Post DENVER — Colorado will use $3 million from the state’s opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal drug naloxone to local organizations, Attorney General Phil Weiser announced Tuesday. 1 to April 28, compared to 168 in the same period in 2024.
JEMS
JUNE 26, 2025
It’s offering naloxone, an emergency medication used to reverse opioid overdoses, for free. Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, reverses opioid overdoses by attaching to opioid receptors in the brain and blocking other opioids. 4, 2018, in Philadelphia. (AP Republican state Rep.
Peter Canning
JUNE 25, 2025
If they’re lethargic and hard to arouse, but still breathing effectively, it’s not an overdose. 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. Fatal overdoses are easy to track.
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