Researchers have identified bradycardia—an abnormally low heart rate—as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help ...

Researchers have identified bradycardia-an abnormally low heart rate–as a symptom of xylazine-opioid overdose. This breakthrough finding from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai may help ...

An observational study of patients with opioid overdose suggested that bradycardia on initial vital signs was associated with a higher likelihood of xylazine detection. Most hospitals cannot detect ...

The drug xylazine, which has been linked to an increase in overdoses, has now been seized in 48 of 50 states, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced in an alert this week. Xylazine, also known ...

Patients with xylazine had higher rates of bradycardia on initial ED vital signs (6.3-percent) compared with those with[1]out xylazine (2.6-percent). Similar frequencies of tachycardia (12.6-percent ...

For adults in the ED with a suspected opioid overdose, bradycardia appears to be associated with increased likelihood of xylazine detection.

WASHINGTON — A powerful animal sedative in the illicit drug supply is complicating the U.S. response to the opioid crisis, scrambling longstanding methods for reversing overdoses and treating ...