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Low Dose Ketamine Infusion for Postoperative Analgesia After Total Knee Arthroplasty: Optimum Dose to Reduce Morphine Consumption
In Brief
An observational study for Postoperative Pain. Completed, enrolled 75 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This study evaluates continous infusion of low-dose ketamine during intraoperative and postoperative periods at three different doses to provide postoperative analgesia in total knee arthroplasty cases. Patients enrolled randomly into one of 2, 4, 6 μg / kg / min perioperative ketamine groups. All groups were given spinal anesthesia and intravenous patient controlled anesthesia. Ketamine was started when sensorial block reached T10 dermatome level before the skin incision. By the end of the operation, in all groups, ketamine infusions were reduced by half doses. Intravenous patient-controlled analgesia device was set to 2 mg bolus morphine with no basal infusion for 48 hours during the postoperative period.