noShould Narcan be mandatory on 121 flight?
Are y'all having a statistically-significant number of in-flight deaths due to opioid overdoses?
Like I assume AEDs are present because they are a low-cost response to the number-one cause of death in the US: heart disease.
Overdoses aren't in the top 10 (across the average of all demographics), so based on that I don't see a justification for it.
I don't see why not. There are all kinds of other, way more controlled, drugs in the EEMK on board. I know we've had a few overdoses on board in the past few years, mostly out of Vegas. Narcan is cheap, effective, has low risk of complications, and the nasal injectors are super easy to use. I carry one in a a trauma kit in my car, as well as one in a med kit in my hiking pack.
I think it's politics.
But if it's saving someone and having the requisite paperwork and "effery" after someone expires on your jet, hell, it's the size of an epipen, throw it in the red bag and be done with it.
I disagree a bit with the “low risk” of complications part about Naloxone. If you slam it you run the risk of someone having some very projectile vomiting - not to mention killing their high which has its own inherent issues.
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Wait... there's politics around narcan availability?
Wait... there's politics around narcan availability?
I think it's politics.
But if it's saving someone and having the requisite paperwork and "effery" after someone expires on your jet, hell, it's the size of an epipen, throw it in the red bag and be done with it.
Someone was arguing the cost/benefit angle of having it in the bag.... I would ask what is the cost of a diversion should the need arise and you don't have it....
Someone was arguing the cost/benefit angle of having it in the bag.... I would ask what is the cost of a diversion should the need arise and you don't have it....
fair enough. I suppose they would have a large supply on board. I know my wife will routinely end up giving multiple doses. Like mentioned I suppose the hassle of someone passing onboard would be enough to hope it was there....To be fair....
You'd probably still have to divert. It's an uptake inhibitor, so after it wears off (which happens pretty quickly), if the subject had enough drugs in their system they could overdose again.
fair enough. I suppose they would have a large supply on board. I know my wife will routinely end up giving multiple doses. Like mentioned I suppose the hassle of someone passing onboard would be enough to hope it was there....
better to have it and not need it than needing it and not having it.I just looked in our OnBoard Manual. We have Narcan onboard. Is it controversial?