erica110

Please....... Call your local poison center. They are able to look up pills in a computer data base based on your description, color, type of pill, and markings. I would not rely on anyone else to do this for you. There are millions of pills out there that look alike. I work in an ER and this is what we do to identify unknown pills.

I am a nurse in the ER, who has extensive experience with sedation. In my opinion there was absolutely NO reason for you to be given narcan, if in fact your VS were stable and you were not having respiratory difficulty. It is normal to be a bit sleepy after sedation, but demerol and versed are fairly fast acting and their peak effects should have been long gone. It is the nurses responsibility to monitor your condition until you are awake enough to be D/c'd home. Narcan would have reversed what was left of your demerol, however it's half life is much shorter than that of demerol and thus would only provide effects for a short period of time. It probably would not have affected your vicodin at all. As another post read, I also have never given narcan in a sedation except during the procedure when pt. had resp depression to the point of apnea. (or in heroin OD pt's). I'm sorry that you had this experience.

I think she meant "rarely do we give the immune globulin". I too, work in the ER, and what was posted earlier is correct. Think of the "immune globulin" we give to pregnant women who are rh neg. Same idea here. The tetorifice immune globulin supplies the antibodies directly without your immune system having to create them on its own. For high risk groups (those never immunized) with a high risk exposure we give the tet.immune globul. AND the Td toxoid (0.5cc IM). The immune globulin gives immediate coverage until the td toxoid can stimulate the immune system to make it on its own. For the normal folk, we just give the Td toxoid.