The department is currently involved in various research projects. These include;

• Use of low dose intra-muscular ketamine (2 mg/kg) and side effect profile.

Ethical Committee approval May 1998. R.McGlone, M.Howes

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• Use of activated charcoal in paracetamol poisoning for patients presenting within one hour to A&E. Initial study looking at glutathione (GSH) S-transferase levels on patients attending on presentation - as a marker of early hepatic damage.

A Curran, R.McGlone, M Dellerba, C Squire