What is the optimal dose of intramuscular ketamine for pediatric sedation?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-26

  Green, Steven M ^a,b,e   Hummel, Christopher B ^c   Wittlake, William A ^a   Rothrock, Steven G ^d   Hopkins, G Alan ^a,b   Garrett, Wayne ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Riverside County Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^c Mammoth Hospital   (United States)

^d ORLANDO REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e 31250 Highland Avenue ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Dissociative state; Dosing; Ketamine; Sedation

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGITATION; AIRWAY CONDUCTANCE; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CHILD; DOSE RESPONSE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; VOMITING;

EID: 0032940630     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb00089.x     Document Type: Article

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