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Dr. Bonnie Milas, an intensive care anesthesiologist at the University of Pennsylvania, uses fentanyl in combination with other drugs to treat critical patients. She also lost two sons to ...
Milas cites an alert the Philadelphia health department issued on Dec. 10 about the fentanyl-medetomidine mix: It causes some users to wake with severe withdrawal that requires emergency medical ...
Knowing how to respond in an emergency and what resources are available can be the difference between life and death when it comes to opioid-related overdoses.
Gastric lavage, also commonly called stomach pumping or gastric irrigation, is the process of cleaning out the contents of the stomach using a tube. Since its first recorded use in the early 19th century, it has become one of the most routine means of eliminating poisons from the stomach. [ 1 ]
Fentanyl is used to help relieve shortness of breath when patients cannot tolerate morphine, or whose breathlessness is refractory to morphine. Fentanyl is useful for such treatment in palliative care settings where pain and shortness of breath are severe and need to be treated with strong opioids.
How naloxone works. Naloxone, the medication that reverses opioid overdoses, is administered like a nasal spray. Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave the OK to two ...
This isn't the first time the United States has faced fentanyl problems. The Guardian reports that more than 1,000 people died from overdoses cause by the drug between 2005 and 2008.
The fentanyl epidemic on our shores has already claimed nearly half a million American lives and crippled the US health system with trillions in costs — while cartels walk away with billions in ...