The boys rescued from a cave in Thailand last year were sedated with ketamine, according to details of the rescue released in a medical journal
Medics who treated the 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from a cave in Thailand last year credit the drug ketamine with playing a key role in the daring and dangerous mission to extract them.
According to details of the rescue released in a medical journal Thursday, the boys were given unspecified doses of ketamine, also known as party drug Special K, by the rescue divers as they were taken out of Tham Luang cave. Reports at the time had suggested that the children, who had been trapped for two weeks, were sedated during the operation, but officials gave few details.
Australian diver opens up about rescuing Thai boys from cave 01:24Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962 and was used by US Army doctors on American soldiers fighting in Vietnam as a painkiller and sedative. However, its minor hallucinogenic side effects soon warned doctors off treating people, and it developed a reputation as a street drug known for producing a high similar to an out-of-body experience. It has also been used as a date rape drug.
The decision to rescue the boys was complicated by the death of former Thai Navy SEAL Saman Kunan, who ran out of air while returning from an operation to deliver oxygen tanks to the cave.Richard Harris, the Australian anesthesiologist, was one of only two cave-diving anesthesiologists in the world. "I didn't think it would work at all," Harris told National Geographic."I expected the first two kids to drown and then we'd have to do something different.
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