Data complete?
Evaluation appropriate?
Number of CNS depressants being taken
Number of risk factors for serious respiratory depression
Is the person at risk for severe respiratory depression?
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Purpose: To identify a person at risk for respiratory depression caused by co-ingestion of two or more CNS depressants.
Specialty: Toxicology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care
Objective: complications, adverse effects
ICD-10: Z86.4, F10.1,