Ketamine-associated vomiting: Is it dose-related?

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-18

  Thorp, Andrea W ^a,b   Brown, Lance ^a   Green, Steven M ^a  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose; Ketamine; Procedural related sedation; Sedation; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; BENZODIAZEPINE; KETAMINE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG INTERACTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; INFANT; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; BENZODIAZEPINES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VOMITING;

EID: 65249143442     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e318191db68     Document Type: Article

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