TY - JOUR T1 - Intramuscular ketamine in A&E JF - Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition JO - Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed SP - ep30 LP - ep30 VL - 90 IS - 2 A2 - , Y1 - 2005/08/01 UR - http://ep.bmj.com/content/90/2/ep30.abstract N2 - Ketamine was first developed over 40 yeas ago. It was used in the field by the US army in Vietnam and has been used extensively throughout the world (but not very much in Britain) since then. It produces anaesthesia, analgesia, and amnesia with preservation of respiratory protective reflexes. Reports of its use by non-anaesthetists for procedural sedation in children first appeared in the early 1990s. Now staff at two English accident and emergency … ER -