{"id":54,"date":"2009-04-24T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc-archimedes\/?p=54"},"modified":"2009-04-24T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:41:30","slug":"q-midazolam-or-ketamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/04\/24\/q-midazolam-or-ketamine\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Midazolam or Ketamine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3460\/3396684094_a8986a1066_t.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"71\" \/>You have a 7 year old in the ED that needs sutures to a wound inflected when he and his twin were playing Pirates of the Caribbean with kitchen knives &#8230; he&#8217;s not the sort of chap that will lie still while you stitch him up &#8230; so what would you use to keep him down? <!--more-->General anaethesthesia? Midazolam? Ketamine?<\/p>\n<p>A senior ST in paediatrics (with previous experience in anaesthetics) is asking this question &#8211; but what do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgement: Image from <a title=\"Photographer link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lo_re_n_zo_\/\">lo.re.n.zo<\/a> @ flickr<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have a 7 year old in the ED that needs sutures to a wound inflected when he and his twin were playing Pirates of the Caribbean with kitchen knives &#8230; he&#8217;s not the sort of chap that will lie still while you stitch him up &#8230; so what would you use to keep him [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/2009\/04\/24\/q-midazolam-or-ketamine\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,96,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sedation","category-side-effects","category-therapy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/adc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}