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NREMT Advanced EMT Practice Test #3

Category - EMT-I/99

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You arrive at a home in which an individual has overdosed on heroin. What drug would you administer?
  1. NSAID
  2. Naloxone
  3. Aspirin
  4. Morphine
Explanation
Answer - B - A patient that has overdosed on heroin would have naloxone administered. Heroin is an opioid against. When overdosed, it causes severe respiratory depression unconsciousness and pinpoint pupils. To treat a heroin overdose, administer naloxone, a competitive opioid antagonist. The naloxone will compete with the heroin for the receptor sites and block the effects of the opioid - namely, respiratory depression.
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