Paediatric procedural sedation using ketamine in a UK emergency department: a 7 year review of practice.
Author
Kidd, Lawrence R
Lyons, S C
Lloyd, Gavin
Date
2016-02-17Journal
British journal of anaesthesiaType
Journal ArticlePublisher
Oxford JournalsDOI
10.1093/bja/aev555Rights
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Ketamine is growing in popularity for procedural sedation in the paediatric population, yet safety concerns remain. We performed a retrospective review of practice and outcomes of paediatric ketamine sedation using the World SIVA International Sedation Task Force reporting tool.