Deep Dive – Ketamine: Old Drug, New Uses, New Concerns

Thursday, September 21, 2023

3:00 PM – 5:15 PM CT

Location: 356/357

CE: 2.25

Panelist(s)

Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP

EMS Educator
Exeter Hospital, Exeter, NH
Lee, New Hampshire
Brooke Burton, NRP, FACPE (she/her/hers)

Quality Improvement / Controlled Substance Manager
Unified Fire Authority
South Salt Lake, Utah
Douglas M. Wolfberg, JD (he/him/his)

EMS Attorney and Advisor
Page, Wolfberg & Wirth
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Kristopher L. Thompson, MHA, BSN, RN, NRP (he/him/his)

RN / Paramedic, Consultant
Black Cloud Solutions
Peyton, Colorado
Michael P. Bernhardt (he/him/his)

Paramedic / Educator
German Red Cross / Freelancer
Bendorf, Rheinland-Pfalz
Jessica Barbour, NREMT-P (she/her/hers)

Paramedic
New Orleans EMS
New Orleans, Louisiana

Moderator(s)

Michael W. Dailey, MD, FACEP, FAEMS

Medical Advisor
EMS World
Delmar, New York

Disclosure(s):

Eric Jaeger, JD, NRP: No financial relationships to disclose

Brooke Burton, NRP, FACPE: No financial relationships to disclose

Douglas M. Wolfberg, JD: No financial relationships to disclose

Kristopher L. Thompson, MHA, BSN, RN, NRP: No financial relationships to disclose

Michael P. Bernhardt: No financial relationships to disclose

Jessica Barbour, NREMT-P: No financial relationships to disclose

Amanda Lawrence, BSN RN NR-P: No financial relationships to disclose

Michael W. Dailey, MD, FACEP, FAEMS: No financial relationships to disclose

Agenda

3:00-3:05 Moderator-Michael Dailey | Overview & Introduction
3:05-3:20 Speaker-Kristopher Thompson | The Continuum of Ketamine from Analgesia to Dissociation
3:20-3:35 Speaker-Michael Bernhardt |History of Ketamine (12 min) and German Indications and Use of the Medication (3 min)
3:35-3:50 Speaker-Eric Jaeger |Reducing the Risks Associated with Physical and Chemical Restraint
3:50-4:05 Speaker-JayTee Barbour | Ketamine for Rapid Sedation of Agitated Delirious Patients – Is there a downside?
4:05-4:20 Speaker-Brooke Burton |Quality improvement and data perspective of managing cases with Ketamine
4:20-4:35 Speaker-Brooke Burton |A Team Approach to Catecholamine Surge: Are traditional ketamine administration methods killing people?
4:35-4:50 Speaker-Doug Wolfberg |When do Clinical Errors and Protocol Deviations go from Negligence to Crime?
4:50-5:15 Panel |Q&A/Discussion