{"id":11664,"date":"2018-10-03T08:18:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11664"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:18:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T12:18:39","slug":"va-adding-opioid-antidote-to-defibrillator-cabinets-for-quicker-overdose-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11664","title":{"rendered":"VA Adding Opioid Antidote To Defibrillator Cabinets For Quicker Overdose Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Martha Bebinger, WBUR in partnership<span style=\"font-size: large;\"> that includes<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WBUR<\/a><span style=\"font-size: large;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/09\/27\/650639122\/va-adding-opioid-antidote-to-defibrillator-cabinets-for-quicker-overdose-respons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR<\/a><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">and Kaiser Health News<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It took more than 10 minutes for paramedics to arrive after a housekeeper found a man collapsed on the floor of a bathroom in a Boston Veteran Affairs building.<\/p>\n<p>The paramedics immediately administered naloxone, often known by its brand name Narcan, to successfully\u00a0reverse the man\u2019s opioid overdose. But it takes only a few minutes without oxygen for brain damage to begin. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/va-adding-opioid-antidote-to-defibrillator-cabinets-for-quicker-overdose-response\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66391506&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--B54dYhiLwX0ZxpD2fDjJDstuZ_hj-j65wxSk2vXF2wp_RnuL7jO-bBYV9hWEiTuCRKYqpKCudHoz4EICeL0jU_JxcLA&amp;_hsmi=66391506\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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