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Device Detects Opioid Overdose, Arouses Patients Out of Respiratory Arrest

November 5th, 2019 Medgadget Editors Anesthesiology, Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Surgery Med-botics, a firm based in Colorado Springs, won FDA Breakthrough Device status for its Oxalert EPO (Enhanced Pulse Oximeter), a device developed to prevent respiratory arrest from opioid overdoses. Post-op patients and others on heavy opioid therapy can stop breathing, which can lead… Read More »

Aunt’s heartbroken warning after teen’s accidental overdose goes viral

Jake Morales, left, and Gunner Bundrick, right, died in “accidental overdoses” earlier this month after they ingested pills laced with fentanyl. (Fox 10 Phoenix) The heartbroken aunt of an Arizona teen who police said died of an accidental overdose after he and his friend ingested pills laced with fentanyl is speaking out about the dangers… Read More »