Also known as Ketalar, Vetalar, Ketaset, Ketaflo, Ketaved, Keta-Thesia, and Ketathesia
Ketamine is a drug used in human and veterinary medicine, primarily for the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia, usually in combination with a sedative. Other uses include sedation in intensive care, analgesia (particularly in emergency medicine), and treatment of bronchospasm. Ketamine has a wide range of effects in humans, including analgesia, anesthesia, hallucinations, elevated blood pressure, and bronchodilation. Like other drugs of its class such as tiletamine and phencyclidine (PCP), it induces a state referred to as "dissociative anesthesia" and is used as a recreational drug.
Source: WikipediaPatients are most commonly prescribed ketamine to treat fracture of the arm, open wound of the head, open wound of the lip, and dislocation of the elbow.
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