An opioid crisis code simulation for middle and high schools. Students don't hear about an overdose. They run one, on a live monitor, with the same protocol an emergency department uses.
The emergency room comes to the school. Students take clinical and family roles, run a simulated overdose on real ED protocols, and watch a live monitor show what every decision does to the patient. A licensed counselor supports them through the stress in real time, then leads the debrief.
American Heart Association ACLS and BLS sequencing, Emergency Nurses Association TNCC standards: assessment, airway, breathing, circulation, naloxone timing, CPR triggers and AED use. Students see the actual algorithm at a pace they can follow. The monitor shows heart rate, SpO₂, respiratory rate, blood pressure and capnography, the earliest sign of hypoventilation.
Watching a patient crash is stressful, even a simulated one. The facilitator pauses when students need support and guides a debrief about pressure, coping without substances and where to get help.
A short version of what students see on the wall. Six scenarios, each with ten or more decisions. The clock never stops: it runs while you read and while you hesitate.
Straight talk, not scare tactics. What changes, why it matters for school and sport, and what the research still can't say.
Most teens who die of an opioid overdose didn't know they were taking one. Counterfeit pills pressed to look like Percocet, Xanax or Adderall are routinely made with fentanyl.
Start compressions when the person is unresponsive and not breathing or only gasping. Trained rescuers check a pulse for no more than 10 seconds; untrained bystanders don't check at all.
In an opioid overdose the heart stops because breathing stopped. Slow breathing with a pulse: rescue breaths and naloxone. No breathing and no pulse: CPR first, with naloxone alongside it.
Nurse Charles Media is an approved vendor with two of Georgia's largest districts. Breathe Clear is delivered with Emerson North Consulting, IAMNURSE, eLife Technologies and eCamphor CPR.
Completed prevention sessions for middle school, high school, family and staff audiences. Breathe Clear is rolling out through the district's Counseling Services, with sessions recorded so schools across the county can share them.
Working with district Health Services on an engagement bringing the emergency room into Fulton classrooms and athletic programs.
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A voice coach reads each case out loud and the monitor beeps like a real one. In class, use headphones or play it on the room speakers.
You can switch the voice and sound any time with the buttons at the top of the game.