No. 17-07 - EMT ADMINISTRATION OF NARCAN NASAL SPRAY

Question 1

What are the leading cause of injury-related death in the United States, the majority of which involve opioid drugs?

Answer 1

drug overdoses

Question 2

Every day over ____ Americans are treated in an emergency department and over 90 of these patients die as the result of an opioid overdose

Answer 2

1000

Question 3

Opioid overdoses killed more than _____ people in the United States in 2015.

Answer 3

35,000

Question 4

Each box of Narcan Nasal Spray contains two __ mg doses

Answer 4

4

Question 5

every emergency resource shall carry how many

Answer 5

2 boxes for a total of 4 doses

Question 6

how do we resupply

Answer 6

through SRS

Question 7

Naloxone hydrochloride, better known by its trade name Narcan, is a safe and effective medication for reversing opioid effects on receptors in the central nervous system (CNS), which can lead to respiratory depression and death

Answer 7

reference