Open AccessOral Ketamine for Pain Relief in a Child with Abdominal Malignancy
Author(s) -
Ugur Fatih,
Gulcu Nebahat,
Boyaci Adem
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2008.00424.x
Subject(s) - ketamine , medicine , malignancy , analgesic , cancer pain , anesthesia , pain management , cancer , pain medicine , pain ladder , anesthesiology
Oral ketamine has been found to be effective during invasive procedures in children with malignancy. To the best of our knowledge, analgesic effects of oral ketamine have not been reported in pediatric cancer pain management. We described a patient with end‐stage cancer pain that was resistant to opioids and was relieved by oral ketamine.