584 - A New Type of Overdose Response

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><strong>Dr. Gerard Carroll</strong> 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 <strong>Dr. Josh Sharfstein</strong> 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.</p> <p>Learn more: <a href= "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36192278/">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36192278/</a></p>