Ketamine in Trauma

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In the Kashmir earthquake of Oct 2005 Ketamine was almost exclusively
used in large numbers of severely injured patients (mostly with full
stomachs) under the most trying conditions. I was in the thick of it
for the first two weeks as a surgeon and my anaesthetist colleague had
a syringe full of ketamine in one pocket and another full of valium in
the other pocket. These he would dispense picking his way through the
makeshift operating tables we had established (but that's another
story).

The practice did not result in any complications that I can recall and
generated some papers the references to which I can find if anybody is
interested.

Regards
S Muzammil, FRCS
Dept of Orthopaedics
Combined Military Hospital
Pano Aqil Cantt, Pakistan

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