Resus Nurse Podcast

Who is Reuben Strayer, MD? Courtesy of Reuben Strayer, MD Emergency Medicine Physician who works in New York City Author of emupdates.com One of the authors of painandspa.org Twitter @emupdates Created the phrase "ketamine brain continuum" No financial disclosure A Special K Trip Part 3 - Ketamine for Analgesia & Tranquilization And now for the conclusion of the 3-part ketamine series with Reuben Strayer. Today’s episode is Part 3 focusing on Ketamine for analgesia and extremely uncontrollable violent patients. If you haven’t already, go back and listen to Episode 7 where Reuben talks about ketamine and how different dosing can have different applications in the ED setting. In Episode 8, Reuben talks about ketamine for PSA & RSI. Ready to continue with your Ketamine trip w/Reuben? Here we go! Ketamine for Analgesia Who gets ketamine? Chronic pain, poly trauma, oncology pain, etc. Dosing 0.3mg/kg 0.1-0.3mg/kg have been used. No pumps for bolus dose? No problem. Of course, administering