Question

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what is the purpose of administering naloxone to a client experiencing an opioid overdose?
○ to reverse respiratory depression
○ to induce sedation and reduce pain
○ to treat ventricular arrhythmias
○ to enhance the effects of opioids

Explanation:

Naloxone is an opioid antagonist that blocks opioid receptors. Opioid overdose often causes life-threatening respiratory depression; naloxone reverses this effect by displacing opioids from receptors, restoring normal breathing. The other options are incorrect: inducing sedation/pain relief is an opioid effect (not naloxone's purpose), treating ventricular arrhythmias is unrelated, and enhancing opioid effects contradicts naloxone's antagonist action.

Answer:

To reverse respiratory depression