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Episode 105 - 10 Things Your Emergency Physician Wants You to Know

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How to Titrate Narcan to Breathing, Not Puking

Narcan was never designed to render people awake and doing geometry, right? That's not like why we give it. The only thing that is absolutely necessary in the treatment of an opioid overdose is support of respiration. You don't have to be awake. Awake is not the endpoint in opioid reversal. Breathing is the endpoint in Opioid Overdose Reversal.

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