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Acad Emerg Med. 2020 Aug;27(8):781-782. doi: 10.1111/acem.13976. Epub 2020 Apr 16.

Ketamine Versus Opioids for Acute Pain in the Emergency Department.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine

Michael J Duhaime, Allan B Wolfson

Affiliations

  1. From the, Department of Emergency Medicine, UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA.

PMID: 32227532 DOI: 10.1111/acem.13976

[No abstract available.]

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