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The ten-month old baby of a San Francisco tech boss overdosed this week after ingesting fentanyl he found while crawling around the neighborhood playground.
On Tuesday afternoon, Ivan Matkovic, 35, was called by his twin sons' nanny to the neighborhood George Moscone playground where he found paramedics standing over his child, holding a mask connected to a breathing apparatus over his son's mouth.
The nanny had previously called Matkovic to inform him that one of his children was not breathing properly on the playground and she was going to begin administering CPR and call 911.
When paramedics saw there was nothing obstructing the baby Sena's ability to breathe, they administered Narcan - a drug used to reverse the effects of a fentanyl overdose as it takes place. Within seconds, according to an account of the incident in the San Francisco Chronicle, it was mere seconds before the baby began breathing and crying again.
Medical staff at the hospital later ran tests that confirmed baby Matkovic had fentanyl in his system. After the child was observed for
