Ketamine: Emergency Applications from Emergency Medicine (Health/Medications)
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Description: Detailed report into the drugs risks, effects, history, and uses in emergency medicine.... Ketamine: Emergency Applications Is this the famous stone that turneth all to gold? &8212 (Editor, Anesthesia, 1971) Ketamine produces a most useful state of dissociative anaesthesia. The patient rapidly goes into a trancelike state, with widely open eyes and nystagmus. He is unconscious, amnesic and deeply analgesic. His airway is remarkably preserved, with his head in almost any position, far more so than with any other anaesthetic. Not surprisingly, this remarkable drug has made many operations possible
Specializes in: emergency applications anesthesia sedation analgesic laryngospasm stridor anxiolysis dissociation... sedative analgesia