The Colorado Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) has great concern about the use of the anesthetic agent ketamine for the treatment of “excited delirium” by EMS personnel regulated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE). Our concern stems from the reported large number of uses of ketamine for this purpose in the past 21/2 years (more than 902 uses), reported doses that are equal or greater to that used to produce general anesthesia, and the high reported complication rate (24% in 2019 including at least one death)…READ MORE