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The Importance of Ketamine and Gamma-Hydroxy-Butyric-Acid as Anesthetics under Disaster Conditions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

A. Madjidi
A. Madjidi
Affiliation:
From theNational University of Iran, Saadatabad, Medical Centre-Evin, Teheran, Iran and the Institut of Anesthesiology, University Hospital, Mainz, West Germany.
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Extract

Extensive experiments in animals and humans, as well as clinical experience in disaster areas, have shown that expensive devices and complicated inhalation narcotics are not suited for anesthesia under disaster conditions. Today, the most important drugs are intravenous and, in emergencies, also intramuscular preparations which do not cause any significant central respiratory depression:

1. Ketamine, suited for routine anesthesia under disaster conditions; and

2. Gamma-Hydroxy-Butyric-Acid (Somsanit), suited for poor risk patients with hypoxic injuries and/or shock.

Type
Part II: Clinical Care Topics
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 282
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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