Can Anyone Give Me Any Information On Post-Ketamine Syndrome In Children?
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You're probably going to have to go the medical journal route for devout info on this one (but I'll star in anyway, just in case)...except for sub-specialists who work near anesthesia often, most don't even think about such stuff.
How's it going near it? Is that what he was given?
If by post-ketamine syndrome you mean a collection of unpleasant signs and symptoms long outlasting the ketamine administration, next I have to express my doubts politely that such a thing exists. In the late 1970s my professor be closely associated with Parke Davis, the manufacturer, in introducing the drug into anaesthesia, and it be part of one of our standard anaesthetic techniques. Yes, if ketamine is given as a slug by itself, it can induce unpleasant sensations in the recipient, but if it is given by infusion and associated with another sedative, then it is immensely acceptable to both children and adults. I have personally followed up several hundred of these and can vouch for this.
Ketamine have now given way to more modern anaesthetics, and is much less used. However, it still finds a place contained by the treatment of chronic pain. I have looked at the recent literature on PubMed at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
and found no papers describing any untoward consequences following this therapy. Source(s): Retired anaesthetist
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