SEATTLE — Fentanyl-related cardiac arrest is associated with worse neurological injury and outcomes compared with cardiac arrest from other opioids, according to a presenter at the 2022 American Academy of Neurology annual meeting.
“Opioid-related cardiac arrest has become the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. in [those] aged 18 to 64 [years],” Matheus Otero, a research scholar at the University of California, San Francisco, said during his presentation. “There’s a lot of talk about the opioid crisis, but it’s actually becoming the fentanyl crisis.”