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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by jdietrich on Sunday August 23, 2020 @02:24AM (#24250012)
The use of chemical restraint in a law enforcement setting is an appalling breach of human rights, but ketamine is by far the safest option in an out-of-hospital setting, especially when you don't have any sort of patient history. I'm sure that someone has been killed by a single clinical dose of ketamine, but I'm not sure how. Ketamine isn't a very good chemical cosh, but at least it's a safe one.

Anyone administering chlorpromazine and a benzodiazepine in this setting is criminally negligent - if the "patient" (and I very much hesitate to use that word in this context) has taken another CNS depressant, they're in deep trouble.

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Re:Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny by sesuximo on Sunday August 23, 2020 @11:09AM (#24252438)
It’s a candidate for safest only if it’s being used where required by a trained administrator. And those two factors probably outweigh the choice of drug in their effect on lethality.
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