A retrospective analysis of ketamine administration by critical care paramedics in a pre-hospital care setting.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This project aims to describe pre-hospital use of ketamine in trauma by South East Coast Ambulance Service critical care paramedics and evaluate the occurrence of any side effects or adverse events.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of patients receiving pre-hospital ketamine for trauma between 16 March 2013 and 30 April 2017. Administrations were identified from Advanced Life Saving Interventions and Procedures reports submitted by the clinician and, later, from an electronic database. Each was scrutinised for patient demographics, doses and reports of side effects or adverse events.

Results

A total of 510 unique administrations were identified. Following the exclusion of 61 records, 449 (88.0%) administrations remained. The most common indication for admini

SUBMITTER: Cowley A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7706763 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature