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How to Reverse an Opioid Overdose: How to Use Narcan

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teaching you how to use no damage has a nasal spray which can be used as an antidote to rescue someone from an opioid overdose opioids are medications the doctors here at the hospital they are helpful for relieving pain but unfortunately when they're taking it doses much higher they can lead to an overdose and that's when a person stops breathing and eventually they'll stop a person who is having an overdose from an OB usually show three things going to say doctor close I'm walked into a room and all I see is that. The closest on the floor and I don't know what's going on hey are you all right what's going on you okay we're going to proceed to do is called 911 because this / no matter what's going on clearly needs help now you might be wondering what if I'm wrong and this person is having something different than an overdose that's why we call 911 if someone's unresponsive because they're having an opioid overdose we need to act quickly and fortunately there is an antidote that reverses overdoses and we have a particular brand called nice or naughty all right I'm going to show you what's in the box there's a blacktop to it there are two doses in each box and each of them comes in a foil packet we're going to open it up there's a little spoiled and we're going to pull up 74 size it fits in the palm of my hand there are some instructions course if it's an over since you want to act as quickly as possible by watching this video you can just ask to tell between the two index fingers with a thumb on the bottom and the way it's given is a firm push okay this is her second dose again if we need to get it how old is here with the two index fingers and a thumb and when we're ready to give a dose we're going to put it in the direction we need to which is in a person's nose and we're going to press the plunger and it looks like this number ready to give a dose we're going to hold it in New York repossession like we discussed we're going to insert the tip into the nose and depress the plunger so I'm giving her first dose sometimes people will require a second dose if they haven't responded to the first dose going to be ready with that second dose in the Box you need to give it we're going to want to give it on the other side any other nostril just wait a few minutes a person not responding to the first day that you going to want to get the second one of the nice things about this medication is that they can work in any position pair with that same hand position and then you can actually give it up words the spray goes into the fleshy part of the nose and gets absorbed and then another dose has been given

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