Friday, December 28, 2018

After naloxone, when can opioid overdose patients be safely discharged?

Naloxone has saved thousands of lives. But can patients be safely discharged from the Emergency Department (ED) just an hour after they receive the medication that curtails drug overdoses? A new study is the first to clinically assess the one-hour rule.

from Top Health News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2QV0oDq
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