Ketamine

Learning Objectives: After this, physicians should be able to Understand the importance of dealing with ketamine abuse Identify physical signs and behavioral changes in young adults abusing ketamine · Help family members deal with the patient and get them proper treatment Case Presentation: A 17 year-old female patient comes into the doctor's office for the usual check-up with her mother. The patient has complaints of painful urination and an intense pain in the abdomen that…

realized she was becoming the person she vowed never to become, she set off to get help. Ketamine was her answer. Ketamine is being used as a treatment for suicidal contemplation, depression, and alcoholism in Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD) or Major Depressive Disorders (MDD). Ketamine, a common antidepressant, is used for suicidal ideation with physical and psychological effects…

Leeona Pierce “Effects of sepsis on behavioral changes on the ketamine-induced animal model of schizophrenia” This article focuses on the question of if there is a potential association between sepsis and schizophrenia, and how sepsis may influence behavior on the ketamine-induced animal model of schizophrenia. Sepsis is a systematic inflammatory response that occurs by the failure to limit the spread of infection leading to organ failure and inflammation. The paper mentions that inflammation…

case study, in testing for ketamine, its stable metabolite norketamine is normally tested through the gas chromatography mass spectrometry method through blood, urine, and bodily tissue samples. Testing hair samples can give a longitudinal history of ketamine use but epidemiological data collection can be limited by a lack of testing for ketamine in a routine toxicological sampling of suspicious deaths and/or driving incidents which leads to deaths and accidents buy ketamine to be under-reported…

“Comparative Evaluation of oral Midazolam, Oral Ketamine and Oral Midazolam-Ketamine combination as conscious sedative agents in Unco-operative pediatric dental patients” Abstract Introduction: Pediatric dentists often encounter young, fearful and uncooperative patients. Managing anxious children in the operatory has always been a challenging task. Various aversive and non-aversive techniques have been employed to manage such patients. But these techniques cause a traumatic experience in the…

small studies demonstrated efficacy with ketamine use in patients non-responsive to treatment with opioids.1-3 The use of ketamine reduced the dose of opioids required and in some cases, enhanced quality of life at the end of care.1-3 A protocol for ketamine use in palliative care is available, however it was last revised in 2002.4 A lack of published evidence exists on large, randomized, controlled trials due to the patient population that requires IV ketamine for palliative care. A case…

currently valued for its pain management properties because it produces angalesia; ketamine also binds to opioid mu and sigma receptors. In a randomized controlled trial of a single infusion of ketamine compared to an active placebo, midazolam involving patients with treatment resistant major depression, done by Murrough, Iosifescu, Chang, et al. (2013), found that twenty-four hours after the drug administration that ketamine demonstrated rapid antidepressant effects that further supported the…

opioids, ketamine, NSAIDS and a2-adrenergic agonists for prevention and treatment of pain after knee surgeries [3]. Dexmedetomidine is a potent and highly selective a2-adrenoreceptor agonist. It has sedative-hypnotic, anxiolytic, analgesic, anesthetic and sympatholytic effects [4].…

evaluate and compare the atropine, xylazine and ketamine anaesthetic protocol with that of atropine, acepromazine and ketamine in dogs undergoing laparoscopic vasectomy following CO2…

predatory drug is a term used to identify drugs that can be used to facilitate sexual assault. Some predatory drugs are GHB, Rohypnol, and ketamine. Predatory drugs are used to drug others. Most of the time that these drugs are used are to drug a person that does not know it’s happening so they can do bad things to that person. GHB can cause many medical problems and in some cases death. GHB can put people that use it in a coma or they can have seizures. GHB is normally known to be used by some…