www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/our-medicine
Episode 2 at 20min mark shows a psychiatric aeromedical retrieval from RFDS Cairns team with use of ketamine infusion for sedation . The patient is unintubated and responsive to voice but clearly calm and not agitated . As far as I know this is the first ever recorded televised footage of such a procedure in aeromedical setting anywhere at anytime in the world . My research and publications on the use of ketamine sedation in psychiatric aeromedical retrieval were all based on my 18yrs aeromedical work with RFDS and Cairns base and the first time I ever administered ketamine sedation for acute agitation during aeromedical retrieval was on a mission from Horn Island to Cairns . 18yrs later this documentary series records footage of a very similar retrieval mission and shows that ketamine sedation is effective and safe in the aeromedical setting for acute mental health related agitation.
Prehospital and Retrieval Medicine - THE PHARM dedicated to the memory of Dr John Hinds 