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And I'm glad to see that we're pushing it because in our mind, I think these opioid responses are like homeless people.
They're low income.
They're whatever you want to picture in your head over here.
But that's not it.
Like it's middle class, upper class.
This affects everybody.
And it's typically,
It could be something simple as a knee pain that you start out, you hurt your knee and now you took some medicine and like that doesn't work.
And then you up it and you up it and you're just digging for more meds and you can be upper class and now you're hooked on pain meds.
So this affects everybody from homeless all the way up to people who are millionaires.
So I'm glad to see that they're taking a bigger stance on this response.
So these patients are going to present with a pulse, like they have a pulse, like it may be slow and you may see some chest rise and fall, but really these opioids affect the respiratory system.
So they're going to be breathing less than six times a minute, are very shallow.
They're going to be hypoxic.
They're going to look purple.
But you're going to have a pulse.
And I know that's why like AHA says we don't check for pulse anymore because we as health care providers can't check a pulse.
Like I've been on calls like, do you feel a pulse?
Do you feel a pulse?
Like we're both feeling on both sides of the carotid.