Opioid overdose reversal kits (using Naloxone) are becoming more common, at least in the US. There isn’t an established way to tag them. In some cases, they function like a vending machine, but there are also examples like this one that definitely aren’t a vending machine:
I started a new section about this on the Emergency Facilities and Amenities wiki page: Talk:Emergency facilities and amenities - OpenStreetMap Wiki
With medicine=naloxone? Makes sense to me.
I’ve also started seeing blood kits alongside AEDs and found a reference to emergency=bleed_control_kit and I used that. Also bleed_kit and blood_kit exist, so I guess a little documentation is needed.
medicine=* as a subtag makes sense to me. In a discussion on the OSMUS Slack, someone mentioned that these also exist for epi pens to treat anaphylactic shock.
Over on the Fediverse, someone has argued that rather than medicine_cabinet it would make sense to just have a top-level tag for these and the epi pens.
medicine_cabinet does allow for different contents depending on local needs and priorities. On the ground it would be the cabinet I see first, not the contents. I’m not even sure the drug needs to be mentioned, but perhaps the use or general nomclature. Epi pen being a good example, although I think that is a trademark. OTOH, epinephrine autoinjector would not be what most of us call them.
Arguably, you see a box labelled “Opioid Overdose Reversal Box.” So I think that can cut both ways in terms of what the tag’s value should be. You don’t need to know that it’s medication (or what medication) that’s being used.
I think it’s more of a question how many other types of emergency medicine cabinets exist.
Fair point, although I’d want to be told what I was looking for from a distance.
Over time, I’d expect to see more of this kind of feature to appear. More throw lines, extending poles, not sure on medicines though.
Wouldn’t it fit very well into the emergency-category? Next to things like
emergency=fire_extinguisher
emergency=defibrillator
emergency=medicine + medicine=naloxone_kit or medicine=opioid_overdose_kit
Yes, using the emergency=* main key is the plan.
I do like medicine more than medicine_cabinet – the defibrillators are usually in a cabinet/box too but we don’t tag them as emergency=defibrillator_cabinet…
Maybe medication would be less ambiguous than medicine, though?
