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Neuro Trauma - Is Ketamine Safe?

He had unequal pupils and he had these a taxic respirations that at times were like that neurogenic breathing that you see in head trauma patients where they're going like, so overall didn't look good. We decided we need to rapid sequence innovate this guy. So we used a ketamine and rock intubation. You used to hear that you can't use ketamine in head trauma because of the increased ICP. But military research out of plenty of head banger patients from Iraq and Afghanistan have proven that ketamine is perfectly safe to use in the neuro trauma patient.

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