Should I Give Ketamine IV or IM?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 613-614

  Green, Steven M ^a   Krauss, Baruch ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL STAFF; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; CHILD; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NOTE;

ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KETAMINE;

EID: 33749684111     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2006.05.024     Document Type: Editorial

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