Part 5: adult basic life support and cardiopulmonary resuscitation quality: 2015 American Heart Association guidelines update for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and …

ME Kleinman, EE Brennan, ZD Goldberger, RA Swor… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
• More data are available showing that high-quality CPR improves survival from cardiac
arrest, including–Ensuring chest compressions of adequate rate–Ensuring chest …

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 …

Are take‐home naloxone programmes effective? Systematic review utilizing application of the Bradford Hill criteria

R McDonald, J Strang - Addiction, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aims Fatal outcome of opioid overdose, once detected, is
preventable through timely administration of the antidote naloxone. Take‐home naloxone …

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 …

Worldwide prevalence and trends in unintentional drug overdose: a systematic review of the literature

SS Martins, L Sampson… - American journal of …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Background. Drug overdose is an important, yet an inadequately understood, public health
problem. Global attention to unintentional drug overdose has been limited by comparison …

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 …

Part 3: adult basic life support and automated external defibrillation: 2015 international consensus on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular …

GD Perkins, AH Travers, RA Berg, M Castren… - Resuscitation, 2015 - Elsevier
This Part of the 2015 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC) Science With Treatment Recommendations …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Focus: Addiction: Reducing fatal opioid overdose: Prevention, treatment and harm reduction strategies

KF Hawk, FE Vaca, G D'Onofrio - The Yale journal of biology and …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The opioid overdose epidemic is a major threat to the public's health, resulting in the
development and implementation of a variety of strategies to reduce fatal overdose [1-3] …