Clinical Review
Buprenorphine: Can It Be Deadly in a Dose?
Emergency Medicine. 2012 February;44(2):20-22
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Lewis S. Nelson, MD, FACEP, FACMT (Series Editor); Hong K. Kim, MD, MPH; Susi U. Vassallo, MD, FACEP, FACMT
A toddler is found with buprenorphine/naloxone pill fragments in his mouth and is brought to the ED in respiratory distress. What are the effects of buprenorphine in children, and how should this case be managed?