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Originally Posted by Brush Okie

I don't take it as sharpshooting. Good questions.

Yes. Typically you give the Narcan first if you suspect drug OD. It isn't going to hurt anything. If they are intubated you can extibate them if needed. Many times you will run across a multi problem issue such as a car wreak caused by someone having a heart attack that blacked out for a second so you have to treat both. Typically a gun shot wound here involves someone using drugs ie two druggies shooting it out, cops shoot druggie etc etc. I am NOT saying give narcan to every shooting victim, but in this case the circumstance called for it.

We didn't give pain killers ie morphine to MAJOR trauma like this guy. It can hide clues about his vitals, mask his LOC dropping (is it the meds or the trauma) and suppress his respiratory system and we are trying to give them more O2 not less. IF and that is IF he had opiates on board it is suppressing his respiratory system and that narcan may be the difference between him making it to the hospital and dying in the back of the rig. The Narcan is NOT going to hurt him if he does not have any opiates on board. The half life is shorter than Morphine.
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Thanks for the info