Ketamine for paediatric sedation/analgesia in the emergency department.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Is atropine needed with ketamine sedation? A prospective, randomised, double blind study.Emergency medicine journal : EMJ · 2006
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2. Single-Agent Sedation for Behavioral Management in Pediatric Dentistry: An Umbrella Review of Agents, Routes of Administration, Providers, and Clinical Settings.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
   Review
3. Severe cardiopulmonary complications of ketamine: Acute pulmonary Edema in a cardiac patient.Oxford medical case reports · 2025
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4. Clinical Uses of Ketamine in Children: A Narrative Review.Cureus · 2022
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5. Castration of Dogs Using Local Anesthesia After Sedating With Xylazine and Subanesthetic Doses of Ketamine.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2019
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6. Effective treatment of ketamine-associated cystitis with botulinum toxin type a injection combined with bladder hydrodistention.The Journal of international medical research · 2017
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7. Ketamine Sedation in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Children.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2016
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8. What Works and What's Safe in Pediatric Emergency Procedural Sedation: An Overview of Reviews.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2016
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9. The promise and pitfalls of intranasally administering psychopharmacological agents for the treatment of psychiatric disorders.Molecular psychiatry · 2016
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10. Comparison of efficacy of three subanesthetic doses of ketamine in allaying procedural discomfort during establishment of subarachnoid block: A randomized double-blind trial.Saudi journal of anaesthesia · 2015
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11. Procedural sedation for pediatric patients in the emergency department at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, K.S.A.Journal of emergencies, trauma, and shock · 2014
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12. Targeting the glutamatergic system to treat major depressive disorder: rationale and progress to date.Drugs · 2012
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13. What is the evidence for the safety and efficacy of using ketamine in children?Paediatrics & child health · 2008
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14. Conscious Sedation in Dentistry.Annals of maxillofacial surgery
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15. Ketamine versus aminophylline for acute asthma in children: A randomized, controlled trial.Annals of thoracic medicine
    Article

Corrections and comments

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  Ketamine is a safe, effective, and appropriate technique for emergency department paediatric procedural sedation.2004
• Erratum issued

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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