Highlights
- The specific treatment for novel synthetic opioid intoxication is 2 mg IV or 4 mg intranasal naloxone.
- Novel synthetic opioids can cause respiratory depression, cyanosis, pulmonary edema, hypotension, and bradycardia.
- Synthetic cathinone (aka bath salts) intoxication causes cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric and clinical lab abnormalities; such as hypokalemia, hyponatremia and CPK elevation.
Transcript
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