Researchers found promising results from an overdose prevention program in San Francisco and from the use of oxygen in that work.
For this study, entitled “Evaluating oxygen monitoring and administration during overdose responses at a sanctioned overdose prevention site in San Francisco, California: A mixed-methods study,” Suen and her co-authors were able to track patient outcomes using both quantitative and qualitative means but also to compare outcomes during two periods: the early winter months of 2022, when naloxone and CPR were the only tools used for overdose intervention, and the months from spring onward, when...
“Saving someone’s life is always the number one priority, and naloxone and doing chest compressions are sometimes needed to save a life. But using naloxone and doing chest compressions and rescue breathing is a very traumatic response,” Suen noted, for an opioid overdose patient. The compressions can cause bruising, for example, and the side effect of naloxone, which effectively sends the person straight into powerful withdrawal, is that they “immediately get very, very sick,” she explained.
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