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Taming The Ketamine Tiger

Description: Where do we all go from here? The 50th anniversary of the introduction of ketamine in humans will be in 2014. Perhaps by then we will have a better understanding of the place of this unusual age...

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Where do we all go from here? The 50th anniversary of the introduction of ketamine in humans will be in 2014. Perhaps by then we will have a better understanding of the place of this unusual agent that exists as right and left handed enantiomers. One is less potent than the other, but are they equally effective? And effective for what – anesthesia, analgesia, or mental depression? We need more research! In the meantime you, the reader, must decide what is truth or fiction in your clinical use of ketamine or its separate enantiomers.