The emergency department experience with prehospital ketamine: A case series of 13 patients

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 553-559

  Burnett, Aaron M ^a   Salzman, Joshua G ^a   Griffith, Kent R ^a   Kroeger, Brian ^b   Frascone, Ralph J ^a  

^a REGIONS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Saint Paul Fire Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865702443     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2012.695434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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