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 …

The prescription opioid and heroin crisis: a public health approach to an epidemic of addiction

A Kolodny, DT Courtwright, CS Hwang… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Public health authorities have described, with growing alarm, an unprecedented increase in
morbidity and mortality associated with use of opioid pain relievers (OPRs). Efforts to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Emergency department screening and interventions for substance use disorders

K Hawk, G D'Onofrio - Addiction science & clinical practice, 2018 - Springer
The emergency department (ED) has long been recognized as providing critical access to
the health care system for many, yet only in the past few decades has the ED visit been …

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-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: distinctive clinical features and implications for health care and public responses: a scientific statement from the …

C Dezfulian, AM Orkin, BA Maron, J Elmer, S Girotra… - Circulation, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Opioid overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans 25 to 64 years of age, and
opioid use disorder affects> 2 million Americans. The epidemiology of opioid-associated out …

[图书][B] Guidelines for the psychosocially assisted pharmacological treatment of opioid dependence

World Health Organization. Department of Mental … - 2009 - books.google.com
These Guidelinesreview the use of medicines such as methadone, buprenorphine,
naltrexone and clonidine in combination with psychosocial support in the treatment of …