Issue 6
Antidotes and Related Agents: Recognition of Need, Availability, and Effective Use
This bulletin addresses vulnerabilities that compromise the safety and efficacy of antidotes and offers strategies to overcome these challenges. These strategies include identifying the need for an antidote, (especially when signs and symptoms of toxicity resemble the disease state being treated), ensuring the availability of antidotes, and knowing how to use them.
Key words:
- Reversal agents
- Decontamination agents
- Neutralizing agents
- Rescue agents
- Combination order sets
- Poison control
- Naloxone
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗯𝗮𝗿𝘀:
- Do NOT Delay Starting Certain Medications