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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 »