Rowley,
Can you help the non-medics and the physiologically challenged by explaining
why you think this chap was amenable to Ketamine?
James Allport
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From: Rowley Cottingham <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12 February 2001 07:56
Subject: Re: chemical restraint
>You might laugh about ketamine, but I still use it where required. I might
even write up one recent patient, a young arrested asthmatic
>in asystole who was not responding to CPR and full conventional treatment.
150mg of ketamine iv and suddenly bagging became
>possible, the pulse returned and the patient developed a blood pressure.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>
>Rowley Cottingham
>
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