Articles Tagged With: overdose
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For OUD Treatment, Leverage Existing Resources, Keep Referral Process Simple
Perhaps most importantly, make patients feel comfortable and safe when engaging in these delicate conversations.
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Aetna Combines Data With Clinical Insight for Quality Improvement
A pair of data-driven quality improvement initiatives are helping Aetna improve care in two different areas. One involves improving oral hygiene to reduce infections; another helps reduce opioid-related deaths by contacting patients after an overdose.
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Legal Exposure for ED When Overdose Patients Refuse Care
One concern is that whatever the patient overdosed on, which often is unknown, will outlast the duration of the reversal agent.
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Advanced Management of Opioid Overdose in the Emergency Department
This article aims to provide acute care providers with advanced techniques in the management of opioid overdoses, including the use of naloxone, the opioid receptor antagonist, as well as harm reduction management strategies aimed at long-term risk mitigation in this vulnerable population.
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The Opioids Just Keeping Coming
Most opioid prescriptions are continued after a patient overdoses accidentally. Those patients are also at risk for a recurrent overdose.