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

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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

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Link to Article in PubMed

PubMed ID

29416443

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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