Part 6: resuscitation education science: 2020 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care

A Cheng, DJ Magid, M Auerbach, F Bhanji… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiac arrest remains a major public health problem, with more than 600 000 cardiac
arrests per year in the United States. 1, 2 Survival rates of patients with cardiac arrest remain …

Naloxone dosage for opioid reversal: current evidence and clinical implications

R Rzasa Lynn, JL Galinkin - Therapeutic advances in drug …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Opioid-related mortality is a growing problem in the United States, and in 2015 there were
over 33,000 opioid-related deaths. To combat this mortality trend, naloxone is increasingly …

Opioid overdose rates and implementation of overdose education and nasal naloxone distribution in Massachusetts: interrupted time series analysis

AY Walley, Z Xuan, HH Hackman, E Quinn… - Bmj, 2013 - bmj.com
Objective To evaluate the impact of state supported overdose education and nasal naloxone
distribution (OEND) programs on rates of opioid related death from overdose and acute care …

A systematic review of community opioid overdose prevention and naloxone distribution programs

AK Clark, CM Wilder, EL Winstanley - Journal of addiction …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Community-based opioid overdose prevention programs (OOPPs) that include the
distribution of naloxone have increased in response to alarmingly high overdose rates in …

What we know, and don't know, about the impact of state policy and systems-level interventions on prescription drug overdose

TM Haegerich, LJ Paulozzi, BJ Manns… - Drug and alcohol …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Drug overdose deaths have been rising since the early 1990s and is the
leading cause of injury death in the United States. Overdose from prescription opioids …

2023 American Heart Association focused update on the management of patients with cardiac arrest or life-threatening toxicity due to poisoning: an update to the …

EJ Lavonas, PD Akpunonu, AM Arens, KM Babu… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
In this focused update, the American Heart Association provides updated guidance for
resuscitation of patients with cardiac arrest, respiratory arrest, and refractory shock due to …

Return to drug use and overdose after release from prison: a qualitative study of risk and protective factors

IA Binswanger, C Nowels, KF Corsi, J Glanz… - Addiction science & …, 2012 - Springer
Background Former inmates are at high risk for death from drug overdose, especially in the
immediate post-release period. The purpose of the study is to understand the drug use …

Cost-effectiveness of distributing naloxone to heroin users for lay overdose reversal

PO Coffin, SD Sullivan - Annals of internal medicine, 2013 - acpjournals.org
This article has been corrected. The original version (PDF) is appended to this article as a
Supplement. Chinese translation Background: Opioid overdose is a leading cause of …

Effectiveness of Scotland's National Naloxone Programme for reducing opioid‐related deaths: a before (2006–10) versus after (2011–13) comparison

SM Bird, A McAuley, S Perry, C Hunter - Addiction, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To assess the effectiveness for Scotland's National Naloxone Programme (NNP) by
comparison between 2006–10 (before) and 2011–13 (after NNP started in January 2011) …

Opioid agonist treatments and heroin overdose deaths in Baltimore, Maryland, 1995–2009

RP Schwartz, J Gryczynski… - … journal of public …, 2013 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We examined the association between the expansion of methadone and
buprenorphine treatment and the prevalence of heroin overdose deaths in Baltimore …