Open AccessRespiratory complications associated with ketamine anesthesia for ophthalmic procedures following intraocular pressure measurement in children
Author(s) -
Lei Wu,
Kirk Lalwani,
Karla A Hook,
Bella M. Almario,
Rongwei Fu,
Beth Edmunds
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of anaesthesiology-clinical pharmacology/journal of anaesthesiology clinical pharmacology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2231-2730
pISSN - 0970-9185
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9185.130047
Subject(s) - ketamine , medicine , anesthesia , odds ratio , logistic regression , incidence (geometry) , intraocular pressure , ophthalmology , physics , optics
We compared respiratory complications (RCs) in children who received intramuscular (IM) versus intravenous (IV) or no ketamine for intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement to test our observation that IM ketamine is associated with higher incidence of RCs.