Deployed as a battlefield anesthetic decades ago, ketamine is once again being touted as an effective pain-reduction tool.
A Metro Vancouver emergency room doctor is leading a push to have ambulance paramedics stock ketamine to help patients deal with pain while in transport to hospital.
“I was a bit shocked to discover that the only thing they had was nitrous oxide, which works for some people but didn’t really work for me,” he said.Story continues below “I listened to this impassioned plea from the paramedic who said that this kind of situation happens to them all the time … he worked in rural communities as well, where they have transport times of several hours.”
Half of the patients were also given ketamine, and results showed a “clinically significant” reduction of pain. However, 70 per cent of paramedics in the field are primary care paramedics, who are not rated to administer the drug.
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