1st International Conference on Recent Advances in Anaesthesiology (INCRAA - 2009), 30 Jan – 01 Feb 2009 · Nehru Auditorium, AIIMS New Delhi

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Kashmir *All India Institute of Medical Sciences, N.Delhi Abstract Oral midazolam and ketamine are used in children as premedication. We undertook this study of comparison of ketamine in dosage of 5mg/kg body weight and midazolam 0.5 mg/kg body weight when given alone, with their combination in dosage of ketamine 3mg/kg body weight and midazolam 0.3 mg/kg body weight to see whether there is any benefit of decreasing dosage of individual drug when given in combination.