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Ketamine hydrochloride is an alternative to opioids in adults with out-of-hospital traumatic pain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Objective<\/jats:title>To assess the noninferiority of intravenous ketamine compared with intravenous morphine sulfate to provide pain relief in adults with out-of-hospital traumatic pain.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Design, Setting, and Participants<\/jats:title>The Intravenous Subdissociative-Dose Ketamine Versus Morphine for Prehospital Analgesia (KETAMORPH) study was a multicenter, single-blind, noninferiority randomized clinical trial comparing ketamine hydrochloride (20 mg, followed by 10 mg every 5 minutes) with morphine sulfate (2 or 3 mg every 5 minutes) in adult patients with out-of-hospital trauma and a verbal pain score equal to or greater than 5. Enrollment occurred from November 23, 2017, to November 26, 2022, in 11 French out-of-hospital emergency medical units.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Interventions<\/jats:title>Patients were randomly assigned to ketamine (n\u2009=\u2009128) or morphine (n\u2009=\u2009123).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title>The primary outcome was the between-group difference in mean change in verbal rating scale pain scores measured from the time before administration of the study drug to 30 minutes later. A noninferiority margin of 1.3 was chosen.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Results<\/jats:title>A total of 251 patients were randomized (median age, 51 [IQR, 34-69] years; 111 women [44.9%] and 140 men [55.1%] among the 247 with data available) and were included in the intention-to-treat population. The mean pain score change was \u22123.7 (95% CI, \u22124.2 to \u22123.2) in the ketamine group compared with \u22123.8 (95% CI, \u22124.2 to \u22123.4) in the morphine group. The difference in mean pain score change was 0.1 (95% CI, \u22120.7 to 0.9) points. There were no clinically meaningful differences for vital signs between the 2 groups. The intravenous morphine group had 19 of 113 (16.8% [95% CI, 10.4%-25.0%]) adverse effects reported (most commonly nausea [12 of 113 (10.6%)]) compared with 49 of 120 (40.8% [95% CI, 32.0%-49.6%]) in the ketamine group (most commonly emergence phenomenon [24 of 120 (20.0%)]). No adverse events required intervention.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title>In the KETAMORPH study of patients with out-of-hospital traumatic pain, the use of intravenous ketamine compared with morphine showed noninferiority for pain reduction. 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