Trench entrapment: Is ketamine safe to use for sedation in head injury?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 794-795

  Gunning, Matthew ^a,b   Perkins, Zane ^a   Quinn, Tom ^a  

^a West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b CareFlight Group Queensland CareFlight Medical Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETOMIDATE; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; SUXAMETHONIUM;

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMPHYSEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; SEDATION; SKIN BRUISING; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KETAMINE; MALE; SAFETY;

EID: 35848961004     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2007.053066     Document Type: Article

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