Upper ‐airway collapsibility and compensatory responses under moderate sedation with ketamine, dexmedetomidine, and propofol in healthy volunteers

ConclusionOur findings demonstrate that ketamine sedation may have an advantage of both maintained passive upper ‐airway collapsibility and a compensatory respiratory response, due to both increase in neuromuscular activity and the increased duty cycle, to acute partial upper‐airway obstruction.

Source: Physiological Reports - May 21, 2020 Category: Physiology Authors: Gaku Mishima, Takuro Sanuki, Shuntaro Sato, Masato Kobayashi, Shinji Kurata, Takao Ayuse Tags: ORIGINAL RESEARCH Source Type: research