Ketamine as Rescue Treatment for Difficult-to-Sedate Severe Acute Behavioral Disturbance in the Emergency Department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 581-587.e1

  Isbister, Geoffrey Kennedy ^a,b   Calver, Leonie A ^a   Downes, Michael A ^a,b   Page, Colin B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b CALVARY MATER NEWCASTLE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; DROPERIDOL; KETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; OXYGEN; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSTONIA; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; OXYGEN DESATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY; VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; DROPERIDOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958580552     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2015.11.028     Document Type: Article

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