Ketamine generally produces hypertension, does NOT produce respiratory depression, has an emergence phenomena, and has analgesic properties
Propofol causes hypotension and respiratory depression, has NO analgesic properties, and may blunt both nausea and emergence phenomena seen with ketamine
Given as a 1:1 ratio of ketamine and propofol, both 10 mg/ml
Dose is usually 1-3 ml aliquots; median dose in a recent study was 0.75 mg/kg
Median recovery 15 minutes (5-45 minutes; 80% recovered in less than 20 minutes)
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