Ketamine: Its use in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 155-159

  Cromhout, Andries ^a  

^a WELLINGTON HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conscious sedation; Ketamine

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CATECHOLAMINE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; HALOTHANE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; THEOPHYLLINE; THYROXINE;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; APNEA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISORIENTATION; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; HYPERTENSION; ILLUSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LARYNX SPASM; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NAUSEA; NYSTAGMUS; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; VIVID DREAM; VOMITING;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG UTILIZATION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; KETAMINE; SAFETY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0038371248     PISSN: 10356851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-2026.2003.00433.x     Document Type: Review

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