| Category of Drug | Ketamine is a drug for Anaesthesia |
| Mechanism of Action | |
| Indications | Ketamine is used for 1. Induction and maintenance of anaesthesia 2. Analgesia for painful procedures of short duration especially for patients at the risk of hypotension and bronchospasm |
| Well Known Pharmaceutical Brands | |
| Available dosage forms | INJECTIONS |
| Dose | |
| Contraindications | 1. Thyrotoxicosis 2. Hypertension 3. History of cerebrovascular accident 4. Cerebral trauma 5. Intracerebral mass or haemorrhage or other cause of raised intracranial pressure 6. Open eye injury and increased intraocular pressure 7. Psychiatric disorders 8. Particularly hallucinations 9. Hypersensitivity to the drug |
| Precautions | 1. Supplementary analgesia often required in surgical procedures involving visceral pain pathways 2. The patient must remain undisturbed but under observation 3. Lactation 4. Children 5. Alcohol intoxicated patients 6. Increased CSF pressure 7. Cardiac decompensation 8. Pregnancy |
| Adverse Effects | 1. Hallucinations and other emergence reacons during recovery possibly accompanied by irrational behaviour 2. Transient elevation of pulse rate and blood pressure common 3. Arrhythmias have occurred 4. Hypotension and bradycardia occasionally reported 5. Confusion 6. Delirium 7. Mobilliform rash 8. Transient erythema 9. Diplopia |
| Pregnancy Category | B |
