Article Document Academic Article Information Content Entity Continuant Continuant Journal Article Entity Entity Generically Dependent Continuant 2025-05-06T10:53:20 RDF description of Laryngospasm and hypoxia after intramuscular administration of ketamine to a patient in excited delirium - http://repository.healthpartners.com/individual/document-rn19743 Prehospital Emergency Care 24504 Adverse Effects public 14962 Laryngospasm and hypoxia after intramuscular administration of ketamine to a patient in excited delirium <p>An advanced life support emergency medical services (EMS) unit was dispatched with law enforcement to a report of a male patient with a possible overdose and psychiatric emergency. Police restrained the patient and cleared EMS into the scene. The patient was identified as having excited delirium, and ketamine was administered intramuscularly. Sedation was achieved and the patient was transported to the closest hospital. While in the emergency department, the patient developed laryngospasm and hypoxia. The airway obstruction was overcome with bag-valve-mask ventilation. Several minutes later, a second episode of laryngospasm occurred, which again responded to positive-pressure ventilation. At this point the airway was secured with an endotracheal tube. The patient was uneventfully extubated several hours later. This is the first report of laryngospam and hypoxia associated with prehospital administration of intramuscular ketamine to a patient with excited delirium.<p> 16 3 2022-02-21T22:48:57.408-06:00 Drugs and Drug Therapy document-rn19743 Emergency Medicine 10.3109/10903127.2011.640766 Mental Disorders