Ketamine is a safe, effective, and appropriate technique for emergency department paediatric procedural sedation.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

1. Incidence of adverse events in paediatric procedural sedation in the emergency department: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2016
   Pooled it
2. Ketamine Use in the Intubation of Critically Ill Children with Neurological Indications: A Multicenter Retrospective Analysis.Neurocritical care · 2024
   Observational
3. A Pilot Study Testing Intranasal Ketamine for the Treatment of Procedural Anxiety in Children Undergoing Laceration Repair.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2022
   Article
4. Surgical management of the patient living with autism.Surgery open science · 2019
   Article
5. Long-lasting effects of repeated ketamine administration in adult and adolescent rats.Behavioural brain research · 2019
   Article
6. Ketamine: A Review of Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics in Anesthesia and Pain Therapy.Clinical pharmacokinetics · 2016
   Review
7. Pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia.Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock · 2008
   Article

Corrections and comments

• Comment on
  Ketamine for paediatric sedation/analgesia in the emergency department.2004
• Comment on
  Procedural sedation in paediatric minor procedures: a prospective audit on ketamine use in the emergency department.2004
• Comment on
  The Lancaster experience of 2.0 to 2.5 mg/kg intramuscular ketamine for paediatric sedation: 501 cases and analysis.2004

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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