Prolonged sedation and airway complications after administration of an inadvertent ketamine overdose in emergency department.

The use of ketamine for pediatric sedation in the Emergency Department for painful procedures has become increasingly popular. Ketamine is a safe and effective sedative for diagnostic or therapeutic procedures in the Emergency Department. Sedation with this dissociative agent produces a rapid onset action, potent analgesia, adequate sedation, amnesia and minimal side effects.

[Meningitis by enterovirus in pediatrics. Clinical characteristics and virologic diagnosis].

Background And Methods: With the aim of knowing the etiology of aseptic meningitis (pleocytosis in LCR with negative bacterial culture and positive or negative virus culture or without pleocytosis with viral culture in positive LCR), 48 children attending the Emergency Department of our hospital from June to December, 1995 were prospectively studied. Pharyngeal and rectal swab, LCR for bacteria and virus and blood cultures were carried out. The samples were inoculated in fibroblasts MRC-5, RD and BGM.

Time trends in acute childhood asthma in Basque Country, Spain.

To investigate recent changes in the epidemiology of acute asthma in children in a hospital setting, data from the Basque region of Bizkaia, Spain were reviewed for the period between 1987 and 1992. Over this period there was a 18% drop in hospital emergency visits for asthma in children aged 2-14 years from 1,697/100,000 to 1,382/100,000. It was associated with a decline in the number of annual episodes per patient and in the number of patients needing further hospital treatment for the same episode.

[An imaging and color echo-Doppler study of interventricular defects].

Objective: Evaluation of ventricular septal defect with two-dimensional echocardiography and color flow Doppler.

Patients And Methods: We had studied by this method 180 patients; 97 males and 83 (mean age 1.5 +/- 1 years) diagnosed of a VSD.