Techniques to Reduce the Severity and Frequency of Emergent Reactions

About This Study

The objectives of this study are first to determine if the power of suggestion will decrease the frequency and severity of emergence reactions after procedural sedation and analgesia with ketamine in the setting of the emergency department. Second, to determine if people dream about what they were thinking about when they were induced with ketamine.

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• •Do we speak to them in a way that convinces them to have the dream
• •Speaking to them as a regualar person

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Be at least 18 years of age
* Required need for procedural sedation and analgesia

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age\< 18
* Hypertension
* Raised Intracranial pressure
* Major psychological disorders
* Procedures involving laryngel manipulations
* History of Laryngeal sapsm History of adverse reactions to ketamine

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