Opportunities for emergency medical services intervention to prevent opioid overdose mortality.
Conclusions: Nearly one-third of individuals who died from accidental opioid overdose utilized EMS in the year before their death and nearly one-fifth had a drug-related encounter. EMS encounters may present an opportunity to identify individuals at-risk of opioid overdose and, ultimately, reduce overdose mortality.
PMID: 32176548 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Prehospital Emergency Care - Category: Endocrinology Tags: Prehosp Emerg Care Source Type: research
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