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J Indian Med Assoc
; 109(6): 430, 434, 2011 Jun.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22315777
ABSTRACT
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.
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Anesthetics, Dissociative/administration & dosage , Asthma/therapy , Bronchial Spasm/drug therapy , Ketamine/administration & dosage , Premedication/methods , Respiration, Artificial/methods , Aged , Asthma/physiopathology , Bronchial Spasm/physiopathology , Drug Repositioning , Drug Resistance, Multiple , Humans , Male , Treatment Outcome , Ventilator Weaning
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