Low Dose Ketamine as an Analgesic Adjuvant in Difficult Pain Syndromes

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作者：

EJ Fitzgibbon，P Hall，C Schroder，J Seely，R Viola

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摘要：

Ketamine is a non-competitive N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist with analgesic and dissociative anesthetic properties. Low dose or sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine have been used effectively as either a primary analgesic or analgesic adjuvant in a variety of pain syndromes. In this paper, three patients with difficult to treat, predominantly neuropathic pain syndromes will be described. Their pain syndromes were initially managed successfully with the addition of low dose parenteral ketamine as an analgesic adjuvant. The strategy of concurrently starting ketamine at a low dose, i.e., 40–60 mg over 24 hours, with a benzodiazepine proved effective in preventing psychotomimetic side effects. An unavoidable shortage of ketamine prompted a literature search, which suggested that the equianalgesic dose of oral ketamine could be lower than the parenteral dose. Subsequently the patients were converted to oral ketamine at doses 30 to 40% of the previous parenteral dose. Their pain syndromes remained controlled on the lower dose of oral ketamine with remarkably few side effects. The implications of this warrant further discussion and study.

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关键词：

Ketamine NMDA receptor antagonist neuropathic pain oral ketamine

DOI：

10.1016/S0885-3924(01)00393-1

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172

年份：

2002