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Ketamine is regaining popularity in the field of anesthesia and beyond. New studies provide
insight on the many indications and use that anesthesia providers may encounter during …

Ketamine's clinical use began in the 1970s. Physicians benefited from its safety and ability to
induce short-term anesthesia and analgesia. The psychodysleptic effects caused by 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 …

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 …

An old anesthetic agent, ketamine is finding new use in lower doses for analgesic purposes.
There are concerns stemming from its potential side effects—specifically psychomimetic …

This review describes the medical, research and recreational uses of ketamine, an
anaesthetic derivative of phencyclidine that has dissociative, analgesic and psychedelic …

Ketamine (Ket) was developed in 1962 as a less hallucinogenic and shorter acting agent
than phencyclidine. It was given to humans for the first time in 1964. However, Ket produces …

Abstract Purpose of Review While ketamine's analgesia has mostly been attributed to
antagonism of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptors, evidence suggests multiple other pathways …

Ketamine is a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist that acts as a dissociative
anaesthetic with analgesic and amnestic properties. Ketamine has broad areas of …