"Before medically advised" departure from hospital and subsequent drug overdose: a population-based cohort study Background: A substantial number of hospital admissions end in patient-initiated departure before medical treatment is complete. Whether "before medically ... M Khan,Xiao,A Crabtree,... ...
A hotel in Woodland Hills, California, is taped off as officials investigate suspected fentanyl overdoses that sent four people to the hospital. From 2019 to 2020, California's drug-overdose death rate per 100,000 residents skyrocketed 45%. In all, California lost 8,908 people to fatal overdo...
BACKGROUND :To examine, among a cohort of opioid dependent people with a history of opioid agonist treatment (OAT), the frequency and incidence rates of non-fatal overdose (NFOD) hospital separations over time, by age and sex. METHODS :Retrospective cohort study of people with a history of ...
Opioid overdose mortality has increased in North America; however, recent regional trends in the proportion of treated overdose-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OD-OHCA) compared to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of presumed cardiac etiology (C-OHCA) are largely unknown. Our aim is to ass...
Dr. Scott Hadland, head of adolescent medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, said the widespread infiltration of fentanyl into the nation's drug supply has increased the risk of overdoses. Many people who are exposed to fentanyl take counterfeit pills that they thought were pre...
Drug Overdose Treatment 1. Begin CPR, if Necessary If the person is not breathing or breathing is dangerously weak: For a child, startCPR for children. For an adult, startadult CPR. The FDA has approved a prescription treatment that can be used by family members or caregivers to treat a ...
In a statement to the News, YSM Professor of Psychiatry Chyrell Bellamy also noted that Black and Latino people have less access to medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder, which includes methadone and buprenorphine treatments that relieve withdraw...
In June, six inmates and two jailers at another county jail were taken to the hospital after they were exposed to a “toxic substance.” Jail officials have since confirmed the substance was fentanyl, though it is not clear how the inmates and staff came into contact with it. Medical expert...
"We transported a 25-year-old female patient to a local hospital,” the spokesperson says. According to the dispatch call obtained by ET, Lovato was unconscious when paramedics arrived. TMZ also reports that she was treated with Narcan -- an emergency treatment for narcotic overdoses -- at...
People who have overdosed on sleeping pills will be admitted to the hospital and monitored closely, usually in intensive care. Treatment may involve some or all of the following: A stomach pump Administration of activated charcoal to absorb the excess drug ...