Escalating Ketamine Doses and Pre-emption

Summary

Ketamine affects postoperative pain when administered intravenously immediately before, during or at the end of surgical procedures. We assessed the effects of multiple and escalating doses of ketamine administered many hours before surgery on postoperative pain and analgesia consumption.

Timeline

Start

2007-01

Primary completion

2009-01

Completion

2009-01

Publications

• Rakhman E, Shmain D, White I, Ekstein MP, Kollender Y, Chazan S, Dadia S, Bickels J, Amar E, Weinbroum AA. Repeated and escalating preoperative subanesthetic doses of ketamine for postoperative pain control in patients undergoing tumor resection: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial. Clin Ther. 2011 Jul;33(7):863-73. doi: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2011.05.094. Epub 2011 Jul 1.

Drugs

Indications

No indication recorded.