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Five Key Applications for Ketamine in your System (Room National Harbor 10)

20 Feb 19
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Tracks: Advanced Clinical Practice

Ketamine is a old analgesic and dissociative anesthetic that has gained traction in multiple areas of medicine - lead by prehospital medicine. Ketamine has a wide therapeutic range, is inexpensive, has an excellent safety profile and multiple routes of administration, making it an optimal medication for prehospital emergency care. Providers attending this session will learn five mainstream protocols for Ketamine administration along with indications, contraindications, and dosing. Attendees will understand common adverse effects and how to treat those reactions. Jared Ross will conclude his lecture with a discussion of three emerging applications for Ketamine in the prehospital setting.