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Their Guardian system can deliver critical emergency supplies—Narcan, epinephrine, blood products, AEDs—direct to incident scenes faster than ground crews can arrive. This capability can mean the difference between life and death in overdose, allergic reaction, or trauma incidents.
Imagine every high school student leaving with CPR, Narcan, and basic triage knowledge. New Britain sees significant drop in opioid deaths with Narcan training, social services. – What can I do before help arrives? – What should every household have in an emergency kit? CT Insider. 2024, January 15). Manistee News.
Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, reverses opioid overdoses by attaching to opioid receptors in the brain and blocking other opioids. Newton County accounted for 173 of those incidents and Narcan was administered in 65% of those cases in Newton. “We 4, 2018, in Philadelphia.
Officials credited the availability of naloxone, which has the brand name Narcan, for helping to blunt the health crisis. The state saw an even steeper decrease in deaths — 31% — among those that involved synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, according to Weiser’s office. Used appropriately, it can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Delivering Narcan and prayers The Penn North workers and the city’s Health Department were distributing Narcan, an opioid antagonist used to reverse the effects of an overdose. Workers from nearby Penn North Recovery Center were already on the scene, Hudson said, joined by emergency medical personnel from the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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They cannot administer any type of medication, and aren’t usually working on an ambulance; rather, some EMRs are police officers, firefighters, and safety officers for larger corporations. The introduction of Narcan via intranasal administration was a game changer for those agencies in areas where opiates ran rampant.
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