Acute Behavioural Disturbance; Roadside to Resus
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Dosage of Ketamine Rapid Stimulus
Ketamine appears to be a bit of a balance, doesn't it? It's going to achieve adequate sedation in the most rapid fashion. But there is some associated increase of adverse events. And I guess thinking back to those side effects that we normally associate with ketamine such as the tachycardia and the hypertension, if we do see that, then we can think about adding in some benzos to balance out some of those effects of the ketamine. So that's ketamine, something that we're all probably fairly familiar with. But I guess draperidol is another option that we've already discussed. And maybe certainly in the UK, something less familiar to us
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