Detecting opioid overdoses with smartphones

Naloxone in cardiac arrest with suspected opioid overdoses.

INTRODUCTION Naloxone's use in cardiac arrest has been of recent interest, stimulated by conflicting results in both human case reports and animal studies demonstrating antiarrhythmic and positive ionotropic effects. We hypothesized that naloxone administration during cardiac arrest, in suspected opioid overdosed patients, is associated with a change in cardiac rhythm. METHODS From a database...

Benzodiazepines and cocaine as risk factors in fatal opioid overdoses

Circumstances surrounding non‐fatal opioid overdoses attended by ambulance services

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS Opioid overdose fatalities are a significant concern globally. Non-fatal overdoses have been described as a strong predictor for future overdoses, and are often attended by the ambulance services. This paper explores characteristics associated with non-fatal overdoses and aims to identify possible trends among these events in an urban area in Norway. DESIGN AND METHODS T...

Detecting Falls as Novelties in Acceleration Patterns Acquired with Smartphones

Despite being a major public health problem, falls in the elderly cannot be detected efficiently yet. Many studies have used acceleration as the main input to discriminate between falls and activities of daily living (ADL). In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in using smartphones for fall detection. The most promising results have been obtained by supervised Machine Learning ...

Death Rates from Unintentional and Undetermined Prescription Opioid Overdoses and Dispensing Rates of Controlled Prescription Opioid Analgesics - 2011-2015.

N Carolina, and the rest of the nation, is in the midst of an epidemic of opioid addiction, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. Since 1999, deaths from unintentional poisonings have increased by more than 300%. The vast majority of unintentional poisoning deaths are street drug or medication-related, occurring when people misuse or abuse these drugs. Many of these drugs include hist...