The Lancaster experience of 2.0 to 2.5 mg/kg intramuscular ketamine for paediatric sedation: 501 cases and analysis

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 290-295

  McGlone, Roy G ^a   Howes, M C ^a   Joshi, M ^b  

^a ROYAL LANCASTER INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE;

ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; FLUSHING; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; LARYNX SPASM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; NIGHTMARE; OXYGEN SATURATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RASH; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SUCTION; TIME; VOMITING; WOUND;

ANOXEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FACIAL INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KETAMINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINOR;

EID: 2342541825     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2002.003772     Document Type: Article

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