The emergency department (ED) is a demanding and time-pressured environment where doctors must navigate numerous team interactions. Conflicts between health care professionals frequently arise in these settings leading to potential adverse patient events and exacerbating access block issues.6 While individual studies have identified contributing factors to conflict, a comprehensive review that explores and summarizes these issues is either lacking, or not specific to the ED

Opioids are effective analgesics, but they can have harmful adverse effects, such as addiction and potentially fatal respiratory depression. Naloxone is currently the only available treatment for reversing the negative effects of opioids, including respiratory depression.