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Rebyidd, reminding you to always make sure the patient is not allergic to the hair before applying it.
Btw, whoever mentioned narcan for AMS, really doesnt know emergency medicine, assuming that the only presenting medical is AMS the patient should NOT get narcan, as long as the patient as a patent airway and spontaneously breathing with no cardiovascular compromise.
Now if that same trauma patient is not breathing, please dont reach for the narcan, just secure the airway as the distraction and the time wasted for the drug administration might waste precious minutes, instead make sure the trauma team has been notified and do rapid transport.
Further more, the patient that is apneic from opoids (hence the narcan you mentioned) would first have an altered mental status and would have crashed their car much sooner.
Before you start lecturing others on your anecdotal findings make sure you know what your talking about, its never to late to begin med school.. As I pointed out previously, emergency medicine is (hopefully) not your specialty.