Serious adverse events during procedural sedation with ketamine

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 325-328

  Melendez, Elliot ^a,b   Bachur, Richard ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Conscious sedation; Ketamine; Laryngospasm; Procedural sedation

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE;

AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; AIRWAY PRESSURE; APNEA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOVENTILATION; HYPOXEMIA; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEDATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ANOXIA; BOSTON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEEP SEDATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; LARYNGISMUS; MALE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67649649730     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181a341e0     Document Type: Article

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