ALLMedicine Opioid Toxicity Center

May 13th, 2020 - Introduction: When managing opioid overdose (OD) patients, the optimal naloxone regimen should rapidly reverse respiratory depression while avoiding opioid withdrawal. Published naloxone administration guidelines have not been empirically validate...

May 6th, 2020 - The belief that newborns can develop opioid toxicity from breastfeeding is widely held but supported by very little data. Based largely on a single, highly-publicized case report (the "Toronto Case"), major health agencies worldwide now caution ag...

Mar 3rd, 2020 - The question over whether to administer clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) to a dying patient is controversial, with much debate concerning this sensitive issue. The administration of CANH poses clinical and ethical dilemmas, with ...

Oct 1st, 2019 - History Pertinent history may be obtained from bystanders, family, friends, or emergency medical services (EMS) providers. Pill bottles, drug paraphernalia, or eyewitness accounts may assist in the diagnosis. Occasionally, a trial of naloxone admi...

Oct 1st, 2019 - Practice Essentials Opioids are prescribed widely, often in concert with other analgesics, and this legitimate use, along with diversion of pharmaceutical opioids and abuse of illicit opioids, results in large numbers of overdoses. Indeed, overdos...

Apr 30th, 2018 - In 2016, synthetic opioids (primarily illegal fentanyl) passed prescription opioids as the most common drugs involved in overdose deaths in the United States.

Aug 23rd, 2017 - Fentanyl and its analogs are potent opioid receptor agonists, but the risk of clinically significant exposure to emergency responders is extremely low. To date, we have not seen reports of emergency responders developing signs or symptoms consiste.

Aug 1st, 2017 - Understanding the patient population within the surgeon’s geographic practice area is important to determine which patients may potentially seek increased opioid prescriptions versus those who choose not to use narcotic pain management due to soci.

Oct 7th, 2016 - Naloxone is a mu-opioid antagonist with well-established safety and efficacy that can reverse opioid overdose and prevent fatalities. Naloxone treatment of opioid overdose has been in use in hospital settings for decades.

May 13th, 2020 - Introduction: When managing opioid overdose (OD) patients, the optimal naloxone regimen should rapidly reverse respiratory depression while avoiding opioid withdrawal. Published naloxone administration guidelines have not been empirically validate...

May 6th, 2020 - The belief that newborns can develop opioid toxicity from breastfeeding is widely held but supported by very little data. Based largely on a single, highly-publicized case report (the "Toronto Case"), major health agencies worldwide now caution ag...

Mar 3rd, 2020 - The question over whether to administer clinically assisted nutrition and hydration (CANH) to a dying patient is controversial, with much debate concerning this sensitive issue. The administration of CANH poses clinical and ethical dilemmas, with ...

Oct 1st, 2019 - History Pertinent history may be obtained from bystanders, family, friends, or emergency medical services (EMS) providers. Pill bottles, drug paraphernalia, or eyewitness accounts may assist in the diagnosis. Occasionally, a trial of naloxone admi...

Oct 1st, 2019 - Practice Essentials Opioids are prescribed widely, often in concert with other analgesics, and this legitimate use, along with diversion of pharmaceutical opioids and abuse of illicit opioids, results in large numbers of overdoses. Indeed, overdos...

Jul 16th, 2018 - Nearly three-quarters of opioid-related adverse events seen in children were related to therapeutic opioid use, based on data from more than a million prescriptions. BackyardProduction/Thinkstock Prescription of opioids to children for outpatient.

Apr 30th, 2018 - In 2016, synthetic opioids (primarily illegal fentanyl) passed prescription opioids as the most common drugs involved in overdose deaths in the United States.

Aug 10th, 2017 - Media reports linking brief, incidental fentanyl exposure to opioid toxicity may exaggerate the dangers to first responders and others, according to STAT News. Although the synthetic opioid is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, experts tol...

Mar 1st, 2015 - Patients presenting with heroin overdose should be monitored for at least 2 hours after naloxone administration (some suggest 3 hours) to determine whether or not additional dosing will be necessary. After oral opioid exposures, particularly with.

Oct 18th, 2012 - MONTREAL, Canada — Neuraxial analgesia is a safe and effective alternative for the palliative care of cancer patients with refractory pain or opioid toxicity, researchers reported here at the 19th International Congress on Palliative Care. "For pa...