Ketamine and kids: An update

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 91-97

  Lin, Charles ^a   Durieux, Marcel E ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

General anesthetics; Injected; Ketamine; Postoperative analgesia; Procedural sedation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZETHONIUM CHLORIDE; FENTANYL; GLYCOPYRRONIUM BROMIDE; INHALATION ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; KETAMINE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PRESERVATIVE; PROPOFOL; ROPIVACAINE; SEVOFLURANE;

AGGRESSION; AGITATION; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA EMERGENCE REACTION; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; APNEA; BITTER TASTE; BRONCHUS SECRETION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFUSION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HALLUCINATION; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LARYNX SPASM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NIGHTMARE; NYSTAGMUS; PATHOLOGICAL CRYING; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACEMIC MIXTURE; REGIONAL ANESTHESIA; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; VOMITING;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANESTHESIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; INFANT; KETAMINE;

EID: 13944254049     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2005.01475.x     Document Type: Review

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