Effect of Perioperative i.v. Low-dose S(+) Ketamine

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of perioperative intravenous S (+) ketamine reduces the amount and degree of postoperative pain.

Furthermore the purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of perioperative intravenous S (+) ketamine effects cognitive function in the early postoperative period.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Asker & Baerum Hospital
• Treatments: Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Clinical diagnosis of disc prolapse

• Age 18+

• ASA (American Society in Anesthesiology) I-II

• written consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age < 18

• ASA > II

• liver failure

• renal failure

• heart failure

• glaucoma

• pregnancy