The Emerging Role of Ketamine in Acute Postoperative Pain Management.
Acute pain
Ketamine
Opioids
Pain
Postoperative pain
Journal
Current pain and headache reports
ISSN: 1534-3081
Titre abrégé: Curr Pain Headache Rep
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 100970666
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Sep 2023
Sep 2023
Historique:
accepted:
11
05
2023
medline:
29
8
2023
pubmed:
28
6
2023
entrez:
28
6
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Postoperative pain (POP) is among the most unpleasant experiences that patients face after surgery. Interest in and use of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists for the management of POP has increased over the years with ketamine being the most popular drug of this class. Several randomized controlled trials found that the use of ketamine either alone or in combination with other medications leads to decreased postoperative pain and opioid consumption. However, there are other studies that have not found these benefits. The results as of now suggest that the role of intraoperative ketamine in postoperative pain control varies among different operative procedures. While some studies have shown promise in ketamine's potential use as a postoperative analgesic, there is still a great deal of proposed research and randomized controlled trials needed to deduce the most efficacious and tolerable form and dose of ketamine.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37378786
doi: 10.1007/s11916-023-01134-1
pii: 10.1007/s11916-023-01134-1
doi:
Substances chimiques
Ketamine
690G0D6V8H
Analgesics
0
Analgesics, Opioid
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
387-397Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.