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Ketofol
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Contents
General
- Type: Sedative agents
- Dosage Forms:
- Common Trade Names:
Adult Dosing
- Starting dose: 0.5mg/kg followed by another 0.5mg/kg after 30-60 seconds
- Maintenance: 0.25mg/kg as needed
Pediatric Dosing
Special Populations
- Pregnancy Rating:
- Lactation risk:
- Renal Dosing
- Adult
- Pediatric
- Hepatic Dosing
- Adult
- Pediatric
Contraindications
- Allergy to class/drug
Adverse Reactions
Serious
Common
Pharmacology
- Half-life:
- Metabolism:
- Excretion:
- Mechanism of Action:
Preparation and Administration
- Ketamine
- Comes in a 50mg/mL concentration
- take a 10 mL saline flush and empty 2 mL and draw up 2 mL of ketamine
- 100mg of ketamine in flush
- Propofol
- Comes in a standard 10mg/mL concentration.
- fill a different 10 mL syringe with this you have 100mg of propofol
- Comes in a standard 10mg/mL concentration.
- If you mix the two in a new 20 or 30 mL syringe you get 100mg ketamine + 100mg propofol = 200mg total.
- Every one mL has 10mg of ketofol
Comments
- 2 definitions
- 50% ketamine mixed with 50% propofol in same syringe
- Pretreatment with 1/2 dose ketamine, followed by propofol
