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Originally Posted by cindi1965
I just pray that I never have to make the choice with Ketamine. It scares me to death as I used to work with severe behavior autistic people at a residential facility in the late 80's and they gave them Ketamine for surgeries and I was always picked to sit with them, because I was young and had the patience to do so. It was so horrible watching the effects of the drugs on them waking up. One time I had to stay with a resident for 3 days because she had a extreme reaction to the drug and her parents lived so far away and didn't have the means to get to her.
Now, I am quite sure that things have changed since the 80's,but seeing that poor young lady go through what she did will haunt me forever.
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Hi Cindi -
Thank you for that, there's nothing like making it real. While you note that you're sure things have changed since the 80's, would you by any chance have known then (or do do know now) what drugs, if any, were given to soften the impact of ketamine, as Clonidine and Versed are prescribed today? Consider it a request for an elaboration of that vivid if brief image you have shared from a not so distant past in medicine: which clearly visited abuse upon you as well as those in your charge.
Also, were these autistic "residents" having surgeries at a higher rate than, say, people of the same age in the general population, and if so, why? Thanks.
Mike