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[Posted 07/23/2020]
Opioid Pain Relievers or Medicines to Treat Opioid Use Disorder: MedWatch Safety Alert - FDA Recommends Health Care Professionals Discuss Naloxone with All Patients when Prescribing (2)
RECOMMENDATION:
Patients:
• Talk to your health care professionals about the benefits of naloxone and how to obtain it.
• Recognize the signs and symptoms of a possible opioid overdose. These include slowed, shallow, or difficult breathing, severe sleepiness, or not being able to respond or wake up. If you know or think someone is overdosing, give the person naloxone if you have access to it, and always call 911 or go to an emergency room right away. Naloxone is a temporary treatment, so repeat doses may be required. Even if you give naloxone, you still need to get emergency medical help right away.
• If you have naloxone, make sure to tell your caregivers, household members, and other close contacts that you have it, where it is stored, and how to properly use it in the event of an overdose. When using opioid medicines away from home, carry naloxone with you and let those you are with know you have it, where it is, and how to use it. Read the Patient Information leaflet or other educational material and Instructions for Use that comes with your naloxone because it explains important information, including how to use the medicine.
給病人的建議：
與醫療專業人員討論naloxone的益處及如何取得此藥。
了解opioid類藥物過量的臨床表徵和症狀，包括呼吸緩慢、呼吸淺、呼吸困難、嚴重嗜睡、無法反應或醒來。若已知或認為某人服藥過量，若naloxone可取得，請給予其naloxone服用，並立即撥打119或掛急診。Naloxone是一種臨時治療方法，因此可能需重複給予。即使已使用naloxone，仍需立即至急診尋求醫療協助。
若病人有naloxone，請務必告知其照顧者、家庭成員和其他關係親密的人，並告知naloxone存放位置及服藥過量時，該如何正確使用naloxone。若於外出時使用opioid類藥物，請隨身攜帶naloxone，並讓身邊的人知道您有攜帶naloxone、其存放位置及該如何使用。請閱讀naloxone隨附的《病人用藥指南》或其他衛教資料和《藥品使用說明》，因為裡面包含重要資訊及該如何使用此藥。
更多相關訊息與連結請參考FDA網址：https://reurl.cc/8nqnXg
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資料來源：美國FDA之藥物安全警訊
資料提供：台大醫院藥劑部
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