Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 3:15 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 3:15 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03979105
Brief Summary:
Observational study that evaluate the cardiovascular and neuropsychiatric side effects of ketamine analgesic infusions for acute pain
Detailed Description:
Severe acute pain and opioid tolerance is an important symptom in patients after surgery.
Ketamine in analgesic infusion has been described to decrease acute pain, in patients with opioid tolerance. Ketamine use has been associated with side effects, which are doses dependant. Those side effects are mainly cardiovascular: Hypertension, tachycardia, and neuropsychiatric: delirium, hallucinations,nightmares that potentially compromise recovery of patients.
Objective:
To determine retrospectively in data bases the frequency of tachycardia, hypertension, delirium, hallucinations and nightmares, in adult patients that received ketamine infusions before and after administration of this drug in the first 48 hours to treat acute and postoperative pain
Study:
NCT03979105
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03979105