Ketalar
IM/IV Injection
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Ketamine
Indications
Ketamine is recommended for: As the sole anesthetic agent for diagnostic and surgical procedures that do not require skeletal muscle relaxation. Ketamine is best suited for short procedures and it can be used with additional doses, for longer procedures. For the induction of anesthesia prior to the administration of other general anesthetic agents. To supplement low-potency agents, such as nitrous oxide.
Side Effects
CV disease including severe HTN; patients with increased intraocular or CSF pressure.
Pregnancy And Lactation
Emergence reactions (e.g. vivid dreams, hallucinations, confusion, irrational behaviour); increased muscle tone sometimes resembling seizures; temporary HTN and tachycardia, hypotension, bradycardia, arrhythmias, apnoea, laryngospasm, resp depression, diplopia, nystagmus, nausea, vomiting, lacrimation, hypersalivation, raised intraocular and CSF pressure, transient rash and pain at inj site, cystitis.
Therapeutic
Pregnancy: The safe use of ketamine in pregnancy has not been established, and such use is not recommended. Lactation: Ketamine is likely to be excreted in breast milk and therefore breastfeeding should be discontinued when ketamine is in use.
Storage Conditions
Patient with cardiac decompensation, chronic alcoholic or acutely alcohol-intoxicated patients, pre-anaesth elevated CSF pressure, globe injuries, increased intraocular pressure (e.g. glaucoma), neurotic traits or psychiatric illness (e.g. schizophrenia, acute psychosis), acute intermittent porphyria, seizures, hyperthyroidism, pulmonary or upper resp infection, intracranial mass lesions, head injury, or hydrocephalus, hypovolaemia, dehydration, cardiac disease esp coronary artery disease (e.g. CHF, myocardial ischaemia, MI). Pregnancy and lactation.
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