Ketamine for prehospital trauma analgesia in a low-resource rural trauma system: a retrospective comparative study of ketamine and opioid analgesia in a ten-year cohort in Iraq

BACKGROUND: Opioid analgesics are used in most trauma systems, and only a few studies report on the use of ketamine for prehospital analgesia. In a low-cost rural trauma system in Iraq paramedics have been using prehospital ketamine analgesia for ten years. This study aims to evaluate the effects of...

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Autores principales: Losvik, Ole Kristian, Murad, Mudhafar Kareem, Skjerve, Eystein, Husum, Hans
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4640304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0176-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4640304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26552691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0176-1

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