Ketamine-Based Anesthetic Protocols and Evoked Potential Monitoring: A Risk/Benefit Overview

Ketamine-Based Anesthetic Protocols and Evoked Potential Monitoring: A Risk/Benefit Overview

Since its discovery, ketamine, a noncompetitive N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist related to phencyclidine, has been linked to multiple adverse reactions sometimes described as out of body and near death experiences, including emergence phenomena, delusions, hallucinations, delirium, a...

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Main Authors: Nicoleta eStoicea, Gregory eVersteeg, Diana eFlorescu, Nicholas Christopher Joseph, Juan eFiorda-Diaz, Víctor eNavarrete, Sergio Daniel Bergese
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
Evoked Potentials
Ketamine
Phencyclidine
Drug abuse
general anesthesia
Motor evoked Potentials
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2016.00037/full

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