Clinical Review

Buprenorphine: Can It Be Deadly in a Dose?

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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?


 

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