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Civilian Emergency Platform
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — An older person took extra doses, wrong pills, or mixed alcohol with medicines.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — NOT EXPERT REVIEWED — NOT FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Excessive sleepiness, slurred speech, empty wrong-day compartment.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Confusion about whether morning dose taken.
Scene hazards: Respiratory depression, Fall from sedation
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Try arousal — voice, sternal rub gentle if trained.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Call with drug names readable from bottles.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Naloxone if prescribed opioid and breathing slow — follow training.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Side recovery if vomiting risk unless spine concern.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Call poison line or 112 — age, weight estimate, drugs, amounts.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Ambulance if cannot stay awake talking.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Hospital observation for long-acting drugs.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Medication reconciliation after — prevent repeat.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT let sleep off at home without professional OK.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Do NOT give coffee to wake — ineffective dangerous.
MYTH: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Sleeping off extra blood pressure pill is always safe
REALITY: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Hypotension and falls occur — some drugs need monitoring and antidote consideration.
DANGER: DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Unmonitored sleep with opioid overlap.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Pill organizers double-dose when confused — insulin and opioids highest risk.
DEVELOPMENT FIXTURE — Alcohol plus sleeping pills synergize fatally.