Notes from the Field: High Prevalence of Fentanyl Detected by the Maryland Emergency Department Drug Surveillance System — Baltimore, Maryland, 2019

Zachary Dezman; Bradford Schwartz; Amy Billing; Ebonie Massey; E. Erin Artigiani; Julie Factor; Eric D. Wish

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Notes from the Field: High Prevalence of Fentanyl Detected by the Maryland Emergency Department Drug Surveillance System — Baltimore, Maryland, 2019

Dezman Z
Schwartz B
Billing A
et al.

MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (2020) 69(23) 724-726

DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6923a3

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The article reports on the high prevalence of fentanyl detected by the Maryland Emergency Department Drug Surveillance System in Baltimore, Maryland in 2019. Topics mentioned include the difficulty of implementing liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for point-of-care testing, the use of the Vitros 5600 Immunoanalyzer with fentanyl immunoassay reagents in routine fentanyl testing, and percentage of substances detected in emergency department patients evaluated for drug overdoses.

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Dezman, Z., Schwartz, B., Billing, A., Massey, E., Artigiani, E. E., Factor, J., & Wish, E. D. (2020). Notes from the Field: High Prevalence of Fentanyl Detected by the Maryland Emergency Department Drug Surveillance System — Baltimore, Maryland, 2019. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 69(23), 724–726. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6923a3

Notes from the Field: High Prevalence of Fentanyl Detected by the Maryland Emergency Department Drug Surveillance System — Baltimore, Maryland, 2019

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