Ketamine is an anaesthetic drug with unique properties. Discovered in the 1960s, it is known
to produce a dissociative state with sedation, amnesia, and analgesia. It has relatively less …

Ketamine was first synthesized in 1962, patented in Belgium in 1963, and approved for
human use by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1970. Unlike inhalation anaesthetics …

Ketamine has been there in clinical anaesthesia practice for more than thirty years. Once
called the complete anaesthetic agent, it has now fallen into disrepute because of various …

Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic used increasingly as analgesia for different
manifestations of pain, including acute, chronic, cancer and perioperative pain as well as …

Ketamine as an old–new drug has a variety of clinical implications. In the last 30 years,
ketamine has become popular for acute use in humans. Ketamine in standard doses is …

Ketamine is a noncompetitive antagonist of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor. It has been
widely used in anesthesia and pain management. Ketamine has been administered via the …

Ketamine is a phencyclidine derivative, which functions primarily as an antagonist of the N-
methyl-d-aspartate receptor. It has no affinity for gamma-aminobutyric acid receptors in the …

Since ketamine was approved by the FDA as an intravenous anesthetic, it has been in
clinical use for more than 50 years. Apart from its anesthetic effects, ketamine is one of the …

The role of ketamine anesthesia in the prehospital, emergency department and operating
theater settings is not well defined. A nonsystematic review of ketamine was performed by …

One of the most fascinating drugs in the anesthesiologist's armament is ketamine, an N-
methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist with a myriad of uses. The drug is a dissociative …