Resus Nurse Podcast

Courtesy of Reuben Strayer, MD 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       Back in 2015, Reuben gave an amazing talk on the subject of ketamine and its uses in Emergency Medicine at the SMACC Chicago conference.  It has a lot of fun slides too! I recommend listening to Reuben's SMACC talk first, and then listen to this podcast episode and refer to the show notes. This talk got pretty in depth and long so I broke it up into 3 separate episodes. Today's episode is Part 1, an Introduction to Ketamine.  Part 2 and 3 will cover the applications of Ketamine in the ED in detail. Ketamine Ketamine is traditionally used as an anesthetic in the operating rooms. However, in many ED units, it's commonly used as a procedural sedation agent and an induction agent for intubation. We will be talki