Ketamine
Ketamine… your best friend in the ED
The ability of ketamine to produce dissociation is of great value to clinicians who perform painful procedures in general emergency medicine
10 Ways to Safely Push Ketamine in the ED
- Push Ketamine for Analgesia
- Consider Ketamine for Procedural Sedation
- Reach For Ketamine in Rapid Sequence Induction (RSI)
- Dilate in Asthma
- Sedate Post-Intubation
- Keep It Handy as a Tranquilizer
- Manage Ketamine’s Psychiatric Distress
- Remember the Cardiac Factor
- Lock it Down: Prevent Abuse
- Limit Risks of Laryngospasm, Hypertonicity, Hypersalivation
Ketamine and Rocuronium…for that critically ill intubation
Ultimately, the ketamine and rocuronium combination has equal efficacy and a superior safety profile in comparison to etomidate and succinylcholine. Ketamine and rocuronium should become the first-line choices for RSI in critically ill patients.
Trauma research 2014-2015
- The headline here is that those with an extradural and fixed dilated pupils have a >50% chance of a good neurological recovery. Please, please, please aggressively manage these patients and avoid any nihilism as a result of this pupilary sign.
- Give Tranexamic acid to all patients with massive bleeding within 3 hours of trauma
- Use Ketamine for all trauma intubation so