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SURKit: Substance Use Response Kit

SURKit is a best practice substance use response toolkit that brings together the resources - both physical and non-physical - needed by Emergency Department staff to deliver quality care to patients presenting with substance use disorders

Logo for Substance Use Response Kit

SURKit is part of VCH and PHC's regional strategy to help reduce drug toxicity deaths

SURKit will be implemented across all VCH/PHC emergency departments to ensure more uniform substance use care, focusing on a non-stigmatizing approach to harm reduction, substance use stabilization, treatment initiation and transition of care.

SURKit background and site preperation

    • Introducing SURkit

    • Addressing the drug toxicity crisis in the emergency department

    • Staff resources

    • Staff resources for team huddles

    • SURKit implementation checklist

Harm reduction

    • Harm reduction resource package for emergency departments

    • Harm reduction and substance use resources

Opioid agonist therapy

    • Buprenorphine/Naloxone (Suboxone) to go (BTG) kits in the emergency department

    • Missed dose protocol - buprenorphine/naloxone (Suboxone)

    • Missed dose protocol - slow release oral morphine (Kadian)

    • Missed dose protocol - methadone

    • How to identify number of missed doses in the emergency department

      for Suboxone, methadone and Kadian

Transition to care

    • Transition to care - next best step

      Discharge planning in the ED for patients who use substances

Emergency department posters

    • Client poster

      Talking about substance use can save lives

    • Poster 1 - Multilingual slides for monitors

      Talking about substance use can save lives - English, Punjabi, simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Spanish, Farsi

    • Poster 2 - print 11x17

      Substance use resources with QR codes

    • Poster 2 - print 8.5x11

      Substance use resources with QR codes

    • Poster 2 - digital

      Substance use resources with QR codes

    • Poster 1 - Punjabi

      Talking about substance use can save lives

    • Poster 1 - Simplified Chinese

      Talking about substance use can save lives

    • Poster 1 - Farsi

      Talking about substance use can save lives

    • Poster 1 - Spanish

      Talking about substance use can save lives

    • Poster 1 - Vietnamese

      Talking about substance use can save lives

    • Poster 1 - Tagalog

      Talking about substance use can save lives