carfentanyl

Hi everyone,

As you will have seen in the circulated MAHC memo carfentanyl is confirmed in Grey Bruce and I am sure it is here too!!

Fentanyl testing is a send out test and has a two day turnaround. I ahem talked to lab about this within the last month.
Our current drug screen does not have like almost every hospital in Ontario and beyond.

Becky Vanersel ( our LHIN ED lead) had the following to add below…
“Only thing I want to make sure you know is that carfentanyl has been in grey bruce and likely will be in our lhin shortly. Decontaminate with cold water to reduce transdermal absorption for patient, high dose narcan (8-10mg) and consider narcan infusion. Full PPE is being recommended – but at least contact precautions for staff”

I am gonna reach out to Howard Ovens at Sunnybrook to see if he has advice and /or how they are approaching this….

Stay tuned.

John