International guidelines

United Kingdom

Joint RCEM and NPIS best practice guideline: assessment and management of acute opioid toxicity in adults in the emergency department

Published by:Emergency Medicine Journal

Last published:2024

2021 resuscitation guidelines

Published by:Resuscitation Council UK

Last published:2021

2024 Royal College of Emergency Medicine best practice guideline for the management of suspected internal drug trafficker (SIDT)

Published by:Royal College of Radiologists and National Police Chiefs’ Council

Last published:2020

Drug misuse in over 16s: opioid detoxification

Published by:National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Last published:2007

North America

2023 American Heart Association focused update on the management of patients with cardiac arrest or life-threatening toxicity due to poisoning: an update to the American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care

Published by:American Heart Association

Last published:2023

Body packers, stuffers, and pushers: time bombs in our EDs

Published by:emDOCS

Last published:2022

How to respond to an opioid overdose

Published by:U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Last published:2022

Clinical practice guideline for prescribing opioids for pain

Published by:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last published:2022

Opioid-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: distinctive clinical features and implications for health care and public responses: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Published by:American Heart Association

Last published:2021

Evidence-based guidelines for EMS administration of naloxone

Published by:The Office of EMS, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Last published:2019

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