584 - A New Type of Overdose Response
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Gerard Carroll is the Division head of EMS and Disaster Medicine and an emergency room physician at Cooper University Health Care in Camden, New Jersey. He joins Dr. Josh Sharfstein to talk about a pilot program that allows emergency responders to give the treatment buprenorphine after the reversal medication naloxone—right at the scene of an overdose. Dr. Carroll is the co-author of a new paper about his hospital's experience, as well as its impressive results.
Learn more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36192278/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, |
| 0:05.9 | where we bring evidence, experience, and perspective to make sense of today's leading health challenges. |
| 0:16.3 | If you have questions or ideas for us, please send an email to public health question at jh.edu. |
| 0:23.8 | That's public health question at jhh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:31.5 | This is Josh Sharfstein. |
| 0:34.1 | Today, a new and promising way for emergency medical services to respond to an opioid overdose |
| 0:40.3 | right after it has happened. I speak with Dr. Gerard Carroll, the division head of EMS |
| 0:46.9 | and disaster medicine and an emergency department physician at Cooper University Health Care in |
| 0:52.8 | Camden, New Jersey. |
| 0:55.5 | Let's listen. |
| 0:59.5 | Dr. Carroll, welcome to Public Health on call. |
| 1:05.2 | Very excited to talk to you about some very interesting work you've done in responding to overdose, |
| 1:08.7 | which is still an enormous national crisis. |
| 1:12.2 | Could you start by talking a little bit about your background, |
| 1:13.5 | the kind of doctor that you are? |
| 1:15.5 | Sure. |
| 1:17.5 | So thank you for having me on the podcast. |
| 1:18.7 | My name is Gerard Carroll. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm an emergency physician, emergency medical services physician, |
| 1:23.0 | and an addiction physician. |
| 1:25.6 | So I'm kind of a little bit of a doctor of all trades, if you will. |
| 1:27.8 | I got into medicine 30 years ago as an EMS provider, first emergency medical technician, then as a paramedic for 10 years in New York |
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