Ketamine for Bronchoscopy of Children

Pk, Barson; Ml, Scott; Nw, Lawson; Jl, Ochsner

doi:10.1097/00007611-197412000-00004

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“…An ideal agent for sedation in pediatric endoscopy is one that has a combination of effective and adequate analgesia, sedation and amnesia, good efficacy, ease in administration without excessive pain, few contra‐indications, fast onset coupled with short duration, rapid recovery, minimal serious side‐effects, and reasonable cost. Ketamine seems to possess most of these characteristics, 15 and it has been widely accepted as sedation in many pediatric procedures 16−22 . Ketamine is an intravenous anesthetic drug, soluble in water, but it possesses excellent lipid solubility and crosses the blood−brain barrier easily and quickly.…”

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