Ketamine improves nasogastric tube insertion

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 582-585

  Nejati, Amir ^a   Golshani, Keihan ^a   Lakeh, Maziar Moradi ^b   Khashayar, Patricia ^c   Moharari, Reza Shariat ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; LUBRICATING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GELS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77955343891     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.075275     Document Type: Article

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