Marina Stojanović, Milana Marinković, Biljana Miličić, Milan Stojičić, Marko Jović, Milan Jovanović, Jelena Isaković Subotić, Milana Jurišić, Miodrag Karamarković, Aleksandra Đekić, Kristina Radenović, Jovan Mihaljević, Ivan Radosavljević, Branko Suđecki, Milan Savić, Marko Kostić, Željko Garabinović, Jelena Jeremić
Background : Burn wound dressing and debridement are excruciatingly painful procedures that call for appropriate analgesia-typically multimodal. Better post-procedural pain management, less opioid use, and consequently fewer side effects, which could prolong recovery and increase morbidity, are all benefits of this type of analgesia. Intravenously administered ketamine can be effective as monotherapy or in combination with opioids, especially with procedural sedation such as in burn wound dressing. Methods : This observational study investigated the effect of ketamine administered in subanesthetic doses combined with opioids during burn wound dressing...
January 29, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine