We read the recent CMAJ article on ketamine for the treatment of acute pain by Silverstein
and colleagues with great interest. 1 They note that low-dose ketamine is an effective …

Background: Prehospital traumatic pain is common, but the quality of pain management in
these patients is poor. Current practice recommends morphine as the first-line analgesia in …

Acute pain is one of the most common complaints in the emergency department (ED). With
recent efforts to find effective nonopioid analgesics, ketamine has surfaced as a potential …

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Is Low-Dose Ketamine an Effective Alternative to Opioids for Acute Pain? Page 1 Is Low-Dose
Ketamine an Effective Alternative to Opioids for Acute Pain? TAKE-HOME MESSAGE In …

• We report on 14 patients who received low-dose (0.2-0.4 mg/kg) ketamine infusions in the
emergency department for acute pain• Thirty-three percent of these patients were on chronic …

Ketamine has been studied as an alternative to opioids for acute pain in the emergency
department setting. This review compares the effectives of intravenous ketamine at a dose …

INTRODUCTION: Ketamine has been used extensively for analgesia and anesthesia in
many situations, including disaster surgery where extra personnel and advanced monitoring …

Editor's Note: You are reading the 47th installment of Annals of Emergency Medicine
Journal Club. This Journal Club refers to the article by Motov et al 1 published in the …

Objective: A few studies report comparable analgesic efficacy between low-dose ketamine
and opioids such as morphine or fentanyl; however, limited research has explored the safety …