Response to ketamine in status asthmaticus resistant to maximal medical treatment.
The case is reported of a 28 year old woman with status asthmaticus unresponsive to three days of maximal medical treatment. Resolution of bronchospasm was achieved with an infusion of the intravenous anaesthetic agent ketamine.
Hemming
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Intensive Therapy Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.
MacKenzie
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I
Finfer
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S
D000328:Adult; D001986:Bronchial Spasm / Q000188:drug therapy; D004351:Drug Resistance; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007649:Ketamine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008170:Lung Compliance / Q000187:drug effects; D012121:Respiration, Artificial; D016879:Salvage Therapy / Q000379:methods; D013224:Status Asthmaticus / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology
D007649:Ketamine