Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 42-46 , January 2010

Naloxone in cardiac arrest with suspected opioid overdoses

  • Matthew D. Saybolt

      Affiliations

    • UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Scott M. Alter

      Affiliations

    • UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Frank Dos Santos

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • US Navy SUNY Maritime
    • ,
  • Diane P. Calello

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Kevin O. Rynn

      Affiliations

    • Rutgers University, Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Daniel A. Nelson

      Affiliations

    • UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, USA
    • ,
  • Mark A. Merlin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 2 March 2009 ,Revised 8 September 2009 ,Accepted 18 September 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.016.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00492-4

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.016

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