Experiencing daily pain for over 12 weeks is categorized by the medical community as Chronic Pain. Chronic pain affects a staggering 50-100 million adults in the U. S. yearly and over 1.5 billion people worldwide. Another disappointing statistic, chronic pain is the leading cause of long-term disability in the U. S. today. Traditionally, opioid analgesics […]
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic medication that was first synthesized in 1962 by a chemist searching for a novel compound with the anesthetic efficacy of older dissociative anesthetics such as PCP but with a much greater safety profile and lower incidence of “emergence reactions.” Emergence reactions are untoward, uncomfortable reactions that may be experienced while […]
Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic medication first synthesized in 1962, has been used extensively in emergency departments for analgesia and sedation in children. Over the last several decades, Ketamine has been used in adults about to undergo painful or delicate procedures, creating a favorable dissociative, amnestic state. These procedures include fracture reductions and repair of disfiguring […]
