Ketamine should not be administered in doses that produce excessive sedation, unconsciousness or unresponsiveness, except when it is being used as a procedural anesthetic administered by a ...

We automated the process, such that each morning, we receive an emailed report of the run numbers with associated controlled substances, including our sedation drugs using ketamine and midazolam.

One examined ketamine and the sedative haloperidol from 2014 to 2016. Another compared four sedatives used in the emergency department, from 2017 to June 2018. The reports redact the names of two ...

An educational evening explaining the dangers of ketamine to Doncaster parents is to be held in the city tonight.

Jeff Winograd, who's lived with depression for more than 25 years, says ketamine treatment saved his life. Jeff Winograd couldn’t get off his couch. He’d hit rock bottom with the depression he ...

According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), ketamine is a “dissociative anesthetic that has some hallucinogenic effects” and “can induce a state of sedation ...

The Ramsay Sedation Scale was used as a test of arousability. Findings showed MELT-300 was statistically superior to both sublingual midazolam ( P =.009) and placebo ( P <.001) for providing ...

We must develop multi-disciplinary safety standards for ketamine clinics. ... Approved as a general anesthetic in the 1970s, ketamine is used to provide sedation and pain relief, ...

A professional paramedic would have used the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale to determine the necessity of sedation, and Elijah would not have registered on that. The ketamine did not kill Elijah.

A slightly different version of ketamine, called esketamine or Spravato, was approved by the FDA in 2019 for treatment-resistant depression. Esketamine is given as a nasal spray and must be ...