Antidotes Reported Lacking in Hospitals
Antidotes for everything from snakebites to drug overdoses may not be readily available at many U.S. hospitals, researchers reported Tuesday.
Only one of 108 hospitals that responded to a mail survey stocked in adequate amounts all eight antidotes listed, the report from the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Control Center in Denver said.
The hospitals surveyed were in Colorado, Nevada and Montana, but the researchers said similar results have turned up in surveys in San Francisco, Arizona and Tennessee.
Insufficient stocking was defined in the report as none at all or an amount less than needed to treat one adult patient.
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