Emergency Medicine: Open Access
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Sara Payami

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• Research Article
  Single Dose versus Weight Based Dose Intra Nasal Ketamine for ED Management of Acute Musculoskeletal Pain
  Author(s): Sara Payami, Mohammad Taghi Talebian, Ali Ardalan, Reza Shariat Moharari, Fateme Hojjati and Amir Nejati Sara Payami, Mohammad Taghi Talebian, Ali Ardalan, Reza Shariat Moharari, Fateme Hojjati and Amir Nejati
  
  Background: Ketamine has been used widely in emergency departments for different procedures, prescribed only as a single dose or dose per weight. We compared single dose of ketamine with dose per weight ketamine for procedures done in cases with acute musculoskeletal pain. Methods: This randomized double blind clinical trial, was conducted in the emergency department of Imam Khomeini Hospital during March and June 2012. Patients with traumatic or non-traumatic musculoskeletal pain with numeric rating scale (NRS) ≥ 4 were enrolled. Patients were divided to Weight groups and for each group 4 syringes with the same shape were considered. BP, PR, RR, O2 sat, level of consciousness and all complications were checked for the patients in minutes 20 and 30. First group received 50 mg and second group received 0.75 mg/kg intranasal ketamine. Results: Out of 136 patients enroll.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-7548.1000302

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