Title
Low-energy Bluetooth for detecting real-world penetrance of bystander naloxone kits: a pilot study
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Emergency Medicine
Publication Date
2018-01-03
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Disciplines
Emergency Medicine | Health Information Technology | Medical Toxicology | Public Health | Substance Abuse and Addiction
Abstract
Opioid overdose is a growing public health emergency in the United States. The antidote naloxone must be administered rapidly after opioid overdose to prevent death. Bystander or "take-home" naloxone programs distribute naloxone to opioid users and other community members to increase naloxone availability at the time of overdose. However, data describing the natural history of take-home naloxone in the hands of at-risk individuals is lacking. To understand patterns of naloxone uptake in at-risk users, we developed a smart naloxone kit that uses low-energy Bluetooth (BLE) to unobtrusively detect the transit of naloxone through a hospital campus. In this paper, we describe development of the smart naloxone kit and results from the first 10 participants in our pilot study.
Keywords
opioid overdose, nalaxone, detection, Bluetooth
Rights and Permissions
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Source
Proc Annu Hawaii Int Conf Syst Sci. 2018 Jan 3;2018:3253-3258. Link to article on conference website
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Proceedings of the ... Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Related Resources
PubMed ID
29416443
Repository Citation
Lai, Jeffrey T.; Chapman, Brittany; Boyle, Katherine L.; Boyer, Edward W.; and Chai, Peter R., "Low-energy Bluetooth for detecting real-world penetrance of bystander naloxone kits: a pilot study" (2018). Open Access Articles. 3376.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3376
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