In a recent study, parenteral ketamine provided safe, effective sedation and analgesia to children undergoing emergency limb removal. Ketamine also provided amnesia of the reduction itself — a particularly painful procedure — in the majority of patients, noted researchers speaking here October 23 at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Physicians from the Pediatrics and Orthopedics departments of The Children’s Hospital, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, in Denver, Colorado, United States, prospectively enrolled 97 patients (four to 18 years old) who were receiving emergency orthopaedic reductions. Forty-eight were randomised to receive ketamine intravenously and 49 intramuscularly.
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