Ketamine: a versatile tool for anesthesia and analgesia

W Barrett, M Buxhoeveden… - Current Opinion in …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine use for cancer and chronic pain management

C Culp, HK Kim, S Abdi - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, is widely known as a dissociative
anesthetic and phencyclidine derivative. Due to an undesirable adverse event profile when …

[HTML][HTML] Pain management in the emergency department: a review article on options and methods

A Abdolrazaghnejad, M Banaie, N Tavakoli… - Advanced journal of …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Results: For better understanding, the results are reported in to separate subheadings
including “Parenteral agents” and “Regional blocks”. Non-opioids analgesics such as …

Pediatric complex regional pain syndrome: a review

R Weissmann, Y Uziel - Pediatric Rheumatology, 2016 - Springer
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic, intensified localized pain condition
that can affect children and adolescents as well as adults, but is more common among …

Ketamine for pain in adults and children with cancer: a systematic review and synthesis of the literature

AL Bredlau, R Thakur, DN Korones… - Pain Medicine, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Objective Chronic cancer pain is often refractory and difficult to treat. Ketamine is a
medication with evidence of efficacy in the treatment of chronic pain. Design This article …

Oral ketamine for the treatment of pain and treatment-resistant depression

RA Schoevers, TV Chaves, SM Balukova… - The British Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundRecent studies with intravenous (iv) application of ketamine show remarkable
but short-term success in patients with MDD. Studies in patients with chronic pain have used …

[HTML][HTML] Management of pain in the emergency department

SH Thomas - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - hindawi.com
Since pain is a primary impetus for patient presentation to the Emergency Department (ED),
its treatment should be a priority for acute care providers. Historically, the ED has been …

Efficacy and safety of oral ketamine for the relief of intractable chronic pain: a retrospective 5‐year study of 51 patients

F Marchetti, A Coutaux, A Bellanger… - … journal of pain, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background This work summarizes the efficiency, failures and adverse effects of oral
administration of ketamine at home for intractable pain. Methods This 5‐year retrospective …

Subanesthetic ketamine infusions for the treatment of children and adolescents with chronic pain: a longitudinal study

KA Sheehy, EA Muller, C Lippold, M Nouraie, JC Finkel… - BMC pediatrics, 2015 - Springer
Background Chronic pain is common in children and adolescents and is often associated
with severe functional disability and mood disorders. The pharmacological treatment of …

The use of subdissociative‐dose ketamine for acute pain in the emergency department

B Sin, T Ternas, SM Motov - Academic Emergency Medicine, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Ketamine is a well‐known anesthetic with its use trailing back to the 1960s. It has
antagonistic effects at the N‐methyl‐d‐aspartate receptor. There is emerging literature to …