Adjunctive atropine is unnecessary during ketamine sedation in children

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 314-318

  Brown, Lance ^a   Christian Kopp, Sarah ^a   Sherwin, Thomas S ^a   Khan, Aqeel ^a   Barcega, Besh ^a   Denmark, T Kent ^a   Moynihan, James A ^a   Kim, Grace J ^a   Stewart, Gail ^a   Green, Steven M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Ketamine; Sedation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; KETAMINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INFANT; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PEDIATRIC ANESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEDATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADOLESCENT; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ATROPINE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KETAMINE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIALORRHEA;

EID: 42949156270     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00074.x     Document Type: Article

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