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Originally posted by The Reaper
Much better then some of the previous anesthesias I have received.
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Fentanyl works very well along with a sedative like Versed (midazolam) for conscience sedation.
Im not sure what level of training medics etc are getting for fentanyl administration so I cannot help you there.
I have read that they are using the fentanyl lozenges on wounded in the field. I think this would work very well from my experience with hospice pt's. They and their families were able to manage the lozenges easily even with the risks the most common (and dangerous) being respiratory depression. A pt can mostly self medicate although they need to be observed at least in some degree.
The ones available to us had little lolipop sticks in them making them easy to handle and hard to accidently swallow.
Personaly I would think that ketamine would be more difficult to manage in the field mostly because of its route-
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