Subanaesthetic dose of ketamine in intractable asthma.
A 75-year-old male diagnosed to be a case of intractable asthma resistant to all conventional therapies requiring ventilatory support, was successfully weaned off the ventilator after treatment with subanaesthetic dose of intravenous ketamine.
Department of Cardiac Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Hero DMC Heart Institute, Ludhiana 141001.
Dinesh
D
Garg
Sanjay
S
Kaistha
Dinesh
D
Sood
D000368:Aged; D000778:Anesthetics, Dissociative / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D001249:Asthma / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D001986:Bronchial Spasm / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000503:physiopathology; D058492:Drug Repositioning; D018432:Drug Resistance, Multiple; D006801:Humans; D007649:Ketamine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D008297:Male; D011292:Premedication / Q000379:methods*; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015300:Ventilator Weaning
D000778:Anesthetics, Dissociative; D007649:Ketamine