Ketamine Administration for Acute Painful Sickle Cell Crisis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

CONCLUSION: Early use of ketamine in adults with VOC resulted in a meaningful reduction in pain scores over a 2-h period and reduced the cumulative morphine dose in the ED with no significant drug-related side effects in the ketamine treated group.PMID:34449939 | DOI:10.1111/acem.14382

Source: Accident and Emergency Nursing - August 27, 2021 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mohammed S Alshahrani Amal H AlSulaibikh Mohamed R ElTahan Sukayna Z AlFaraj Laila P Asonto Abdullah A AlMulhim Murad F Al Abbad Nisreen Almaghraby Mohammed A AlJumaan Thamir O AlJunaid Moath N Darweesh Faisal M AlHawaj Alaa M Mahmoud Bader K Alossaimi Sh Source Type: research