Intravenous Subdissociative-Dose Ketamine Versus Morphine for Analgesia in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 222-229.E1

  Motov, Sergey ^a   Rockoff, Bradley ^a   Cohen, Victor ^a,b   Pushkar, Illya ^a   Likourezos, Antonios ^a   McKay, Courtney ^a   Soleyman Zomalan, Emil ^a   Homel, Peter ^a,c   Terentiev, Victoria ^a   Fromm, Christian ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; MORPHINE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VITAL SIGN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; TIME;

ACUTE PAIN; ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; MALE; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME;

EID: 84940042562     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.03.004     Document Type: Article

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