Active clinical trials for "Drug Overdose"

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect that an educational intervention has on patient knowledge of the signs of opioid overdose and appropriate use of naloxone in a suburban outpatient treatment program.

Acetaminophen is the first drug involved in voluntary drug poisoning. According to the studies conducted in the USA and in the United Kingdom, it is the first cause of acute liver failure, and this poisoning is responsible of 10 percent of liver transplants each year in these countries. Mortality is about 1/3 at the stage of acute liver failure. The main risk factors are malnutrition and chronic alcoholism. Ease of access to this toxic and highly correlated with factors predisposing socio-economic field are an important issue, including the speed and appropriateness of care are key factors both in terms of reducing morbidity mortality in socio-economic terms for the community.A nomogram defines a statistical threshold from which the blood concentration of paracetamol has a significant risk of liver toxicity. The blood paracetamol dosage practiced today at the 4th hour after ingestion of a toxic dose, but there is no consensus on whether or not to repeat this dosage during the treatment, as the first result is beyond the threshold or not.The administration of the antidote NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) in proven cases of liver toxicity is also regulated by a protocol that can vary in different services.In the absence of clear guidelines, the question of the need for iterative dosages of paracetamol blood beyond the fourth hour post-ingestion if the initial paracetamol blood measurement is below the curve nomogram remains open.Is it possible to limit blood tests to a single assay paracétamolémie to H4 when it is below the curve, and thus enable the return home of the patient's somatic point of view (excluding psychiatric care when is voluntary drug intoxication), with consequences in terms of costs (hospital days) and duration of treatment?

Warfarin, the major oral anticoagulant currently available in Taiwan, is used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of thromboembolic disorders. Under dosing of warfarin may cause treatment failure and over dosing may cause bleeding because of its narrow therapeutic index. Therefore, it is important to monitor prothrombin time (PT) and international normalize ratio (INR) periodically in order to evaluate the appropriateness of warfarin dosing. Lots of factors influencing warfarin anticoagulation effects include polymorphisms of Cytochrome P450 2C9(CYP2C9)and Vitamin K epoxide reductase complex subunit 1(VKORC1)genes, age, weight, diet and concurrent medications. Taking into consideration of physicians' work load, pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinics were set up to help strengthen patient care in US to ensure patient medication safety. In addition, differences in genetic polymorphisms between Chinese and Caucasian have great impacts on warfarin dosage, and there is still no consensus on warfarin utilization guideline in Taiwan. Pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinics provide individualized care, consistent monitoring and patient education. Through this service, physicians can get the latest integrated information about their patients, patients themselves are more familiar with their medication, and adherence can be improved. Therefore, those who take warfarin will get better INR control, less adverse drug-related events and treatment failure. This is the first prototype of pharmacist clinic for a specific medication in our hospital. The adverse drug events and coagulation function data collected through this program can be used for the implementation of warfarin treatment guideline in Taiwan in the future. The impact of pharmacist clinic can be evaluated by questionnaire of satisfaction and knowledge survey. It can be used as a model for implementing other pharmacist-managed clinics and improving patient medication safety.

Among people at risk of opioid overdose and receiving care in an academic emergency department, family practice, opioid substitution clinic or general inpatient units, does brief opioid overdose resuscitation training and naloxone distribution reduce resuscitation failures in a simulated overdose even, in comparison with standard-of-care referral to a local OEND program, within 14 days post-intervention? Can an integrated participant recruitment and retention strategy recruit approximately 28 eligible participants within 4 weeks and maintain less than 50% attrition rates in the context of a randomized trial on point-of-care OEND and simulated overdose resuscitation performance in family practice, emergency department, and addictions settings?

To help prevent deaths in populations that cannot or will not access physical safer consumption services in Alberta, which may disproportionately include women and those who are not able to self-inject (Potier et al., 2014) the investigators propose to provide virtual (phone-based) supervised consumption services, staffed by people with lived experience.

The primary objective of the ROAR project is to evaluate an Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) pilot program that combines the use of extended-release naltrexone (XR-NTX) and Certified Recovery Mentors pre-release with linkage to community substance use disorder treatment to prevent fatal and non-fatal opioid overdoses among female adults released from prison.

Retrospective study to assess incidence and predictors of opioid abuse overdose and death associated with opioid overdose among patients prescribed opioid products in long-term use.

The main purpose of this research is to develop a population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic model of Propofol when used for induction and maintenance of anaesthesia, using BIS as a pharmacodynamic endpoint. A covariate analysis will be performed in order to account for variability in pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters. The influence of age and obesity on propofol pharmacokinetic parameters will be particularly addressed.

This pilot study evaluates the needs of opioid users for a device-based intervention for opioid overdoses. The results of this one-time short questionnaire will inform development of a novel naloxone delivery device.

This study will compare the data from pulse oximeters to capnographers as they are used to monitor patients who are being observed in the Emergency Department for a suspected overdose of alcohol or other drugs. The investigators will compare monitor data from patients who are and are not on supplemental oxygen, the ability of the monitors to predict the occurrence of airway interventions, and to detect ventilator changes noted on the opposing monitor. There will not be any interventions during this study other than the collection of data from the monitors and observation of the care of patients.