Low-dose ketamine: Efficacy in pediatric sedation

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 158-162

  Bleiberg, Alan H ^a   Salvaggio, Christy A ^b   Roy, Lonnie C ^c   Kassutto, Zach ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ketamine; Procedural sedation; Sedation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; SEDATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANOXIA; ATROPINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG EVALUATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDAZOLAM; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOMITING;

EID: 34247127331     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3180328cec     Document Type: Article

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