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Ketamine for Bronchoscopy of Children

Authors: PHYLLIS K. BARSON MD, MEREDITH L. SCOTT MD, NOEL W. LAWSON MD, JOHN L. OCHSNER MD

Abstract

Abstract:Ketamine has been used at Ochsner Foundation Hospital as the anesthetic agent for induction of anesthesia in five children undergoing bronchoscopy. After an initial rise in blood pressure and heart rate, the vital signs were stable throughout the entire bronchoscopy in all five children. Although there have been no reports in the literature of such use of ketamine and our series is too small to be difinitive, these results indicate that consideration should be given to using the presented technic of ketamine anesthesia for bronchoscopy of children.

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