Ketamine sequelae.

Midazolam Premedication in Attenuating Ketamine Psychic Sequelae

The objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of midazolam premedication in attenuating the psychic sequelae of ketamine dissociative anaesthesia. Sixty patients undergoing various short surgical and urological procedures were taken in the study. All patients were premedicated with midazolam (0.05mg/kg i.v) five minutes before ketamine induction (1mg/kg i.v). The excitatory pheno...

Anesthetic efficacy of ketamine, ketamine-tramadol and ketamine-ketorolac in chicks

Background: Ketamine produces ordinary general anesthesia characterized by weak hypnosis and analgesia leading to complications during surgical operations. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the combination of ketorolac or tramadol to enhance ketamine anesthesia in 7 to 20-day-old chicks and its feasibility and practical application for induction of ge...

[Ketamine].

Sequelae to pneumoencephalography.

Fifty patients were examined clinically and neurologically for seven days after pneumoencephalography. Headache was present in 78%, neck stiffness in 34%, pyrexia in 38%, vomiting in 34%, tachycardia in 74%, a change in the level of consciousness in 18%, and abnormal neurological signs in 30%. Of the 13 patients with epilepsy, there was an increased frequency of seizures in four, associated wit...

Social and Psychological Sequelae

Hitherto a standard conservative approach has been to deny operation to all applicants with mild or minimal deformities, since it is claimed that they must necessarily have severe underlying psychiatric problems and therefore operation must inevitably prove disastrous. Another symptom might be substituted, the patient is likely to become dissatisfied and possibly litigious, and a florid psychos...