Run Time: 3 minutes
Author: Dr. Samuel Killian
Educational Pearls:
- Agitation – 16% of patients experience agitation with Ketamine.
- Aspiration – rare with 1 in 2500 cases exhibiting aspiration.
- Bradycardia – Happens most often with Etomidate, 1 in 250 cases.
- Hypotension – 2% of cases with Propofol – still less frequent than patients on a ventilator.
- Hypoxia – variable: <1% for ketamine to 5% for propofol.
- Laryngospasm – 1 in 2500-3000. Most notably happened with ketamine.
References: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3227310/