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Ketamine
Manage episode 126500080 series 179525
Ketamine is a drug with complex pharmacology and a number of potential clinical effects and uses including a dose-dependent central nervous system continuum from analgesia through to sedation, partial dissociation and complete dissociation. In this episode I discuss this drug based around the following points:
- How does ketamine work? What does it do?
- Continuum of central nervous system effects
- Is ketamine contraindicated with raised intracranial pressure?
- Ketamine is sympathomimetic
- What about ketamine in cats with HCM
- “Ketamine head”
- Can ketamine be used as a sole agent?
- Is ketamine contraindicated with raised intraocular pressure?
- Ketamine in caesarean section
- Other bits ‘n’ pieces
For SHOW NOTES of this episode see HERE.
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37 episodes
Manage episode 126500080 series 179525
Ketamine is a drug with complex pharmacology and a number of potential clinical effects and uses including a dose-dependent central nervous system continuum from analgesia through to sedation, partial dissociation and complete dissociation. In this episode I discuss this drug based around the following points:
- How does ketamine work? What does it do?
- Continuum of central nervous system effects
- Is ketamine contraindicated with raised intracranial pressure?
- Ketamine is sympathomimetic
- What about ketamine in cats with HCM
- “Ketamine head”
- Can ketamine be used as a sole agent?
- Is ketamine contraindicated with raised intraocular pressure?
- Ketamine in caesarean section
- Other bits ‘n’ pieces
For SHOW NOTES of this episode see HERE.
Click Here For Your FREE Copy of a Transcript of This Episode
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