The major recommendations from an extensive report released last December by the Ketamine Investigatory Review Panel (KIRP) of the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE) (https://bit.ly/356jxKB) included the following:
- Law enforcement should have no role in the decision to administer the anesthetic ketamine.
- Excited delirium (ExDS) is not an indication to administer ketamine.
- Ketamine should be administered by emergency medical services (EMS) in prehospital settings so that