Use of Ketamine in a Multimodal Analgesia Setting for Rapid Opioid Tapering in a Profoundly Opioid-Tolerant Patient: A Case Report

We present a case in which a ketamine infusion was utilized over a 7-day period to provide rapid taper of a daily dose of 400 mg of morphine equivalents to less than one-third of that dose on discharge with unchanged pain levels and no symptoms of opioid withdrawal.
Source: A&A Case Reports - Category: Anesthesiology Tags: Case Report Source Type: research