Low Dose Ketamine Infusion for Analgesia in the Emergency Department to Reduce Side Effects
Status:
Not yet recruiting
Trial end date:
2023-10-31
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This will be an intent to treat prospective, double blind, double-dummy, randomized trial.
Our primary objective is the reduction of side effects of sub dissociative dose ketamine
given by slow intravenous (IV) infusion over 30 minutes vs. 15 minutes in the treatment of
acute, severe pain in Emergency Department (ED) patients. The secondary objective will be to
maintain adequate pain control (as defined by a Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score of ≤ 5cm) at
30 minutes for both groups.