Intranasal ketamine for kids – 1mg / kg?
A small pilot study on a convenience sample of children presenting to the emergency department with acute limb injury pain […]
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Ketamine & cardiovascular stability
I ‘jumped ship’ from etomidate to ketamine for rapid sequence intubation (RSI) in sick patients about seven years ago. Good […]
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Prehospital ketamine analgesia
A prospective open-label randomised controlled trial in prehospital patients receiving morphine for traumatic pain compared intravenous ketamine with additional morphine. […]
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Laryngospasm after Ketamine
A case is reported in Prehospital Emergency Care1 in which an agitated patient (due to mania and alcohol intoxication) received […]
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Sedation for traumatic brain injury
What are the best sedatives for patients with traumatic brain injury? A systematic review found no evidence that one sedative […]
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Is there nothing ketamine can't do?
As well as the benefits of cardiovascular stability, maintenance of cerebral perfusion pressure, possibly lowering ICP and providing other neuroprotective […]
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Intranasal ketamine analgesia
I published a case report in the EMJ highlighting the use of intranasal ketamine in a pre-hospital paediatric burns case. […]
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Midazolam smoothens adult ketamine sedation
In adults undergoing procedural sedation with ketamine, 0.03 mg/kg IV midazolam reduced recovery agitation compared with placebo. STUDY OBJECTIVE: We […]
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Laryngospasm and ketamine
What are the factors associated with laryngospasm in ketamine sedation? A large study was unable to identify specific predictors: Objective: […]
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UK children sedation guideline
Despite the huge number of articles in the literature on paediatric sedation, one still encounters acrimonious debates about the appropriateness […]