Respiratory Therapy News Story : Ketamine or Etomidate When Intubating Patients?
The Pragmatic Critical Care Research Group (PCCRG) is a network of emergency
medicine, anesthesiology, and critical care clinicians and researchers at more than 25
hospitals across the United States that embeds pragmatic trials within clinical care to
improve outcomes for acutely ill patients.
Results of a clinical trial comparing sedation of intubated patients using ketamine or etomidate found greater risks and fewer benefits when using ketamine.
