A primer on intranasal sedation View this email in your browser A WIKEM.org PRIMER: INTRANASAL MEDS OPIODS, BENZOS AND KETAMINE Intranasal medications offers an alternative mode of delivering a sedative or analgesic to assist in pain management and procedures in the Emergency Department. The dosing differs from traditional IM and IV modes but if administered correctly can avoid the troublesome IV or needle-stick in a young patient. Learn the caveats and techniques for intranasal sedation. The Pediatric Emergency Playbook podcast has a fantastic review of the dosing and use of intranasal mediation in the ED for pain management.

