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584 - A New Type of Overdose Response
Season 7
Episode 584
Published 3 years, 6 months ago
Description
Dr. Gerard Carroll is the Division head of EMS and Disaster Medicine and an emergency room physician at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey. He joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about a pilot program that allows emergency responders to give the treatment buprenorphine after the reversal medication naloxone—right at the scene of an overdose. Dr. Carroll is the co-author of a new paper about his hospital's experience, as well as its impressive results.
Learn more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36192278/