Santa Barbara Paramedic Flips Traditional Patient Assessment on Its Head

The paramedics did almost everything right.

They responded to a call for an unconscious man slumped on a bus bench. He was barely breathing. His pupils were pinpoint. The signs pointed to a narcotics overdose. They administered naloxone. The man woke up.

What they didn’t do — what wasn’t required at the time — was fully expose the patient…

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