I have seen emergence phenomenon with ketamine in one adult whom I'd given
ketamine to under a tube-train for extrication and an older child - 10 years
old, give ketamine for suturing a nasty wound. Both were quite scary.
I think that if ketamine is used for chemical restraint an 'azepam must be
used in conjunction to avoid exacerbating the presenting symptom.
Tony Adams
Peterborough Dist. Hosp.
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