
#392 Live! Opioid and Xylazine Withdrawal in the Hospital
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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How to Prevent Opioid Overdoses
There's no FDA-cleo-waved test for this at the current time, so really it's gonna be a send out test like to a forensic lab. It typically takes days to get and it's a relatively expensive test. And with the turnaround time, it's not really helpful at the bedside and in inpatient service. We see certainly a lot of opioid overdoses in our emergency department, and we're not seeing a ton of patients with bradycardio and hypotension. I imagine it's because it doesn't hit the imidazylene receptors like the other imidazylanes like Klonidine or Tizanidine would,. So I think that's
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