Efficacy Study of Ketamine for Postoperative Pain in Opioid Dependent Patients

Abstract

Patients who are dependent on opioids often have poor pain relief after major surgery. This study tests the hypothesis that adding intravenous ketamine to a postoperative regimen of intravenous opioids for postoperative pain will improve pain relief in this subset of patients.

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