Emerging Trends in Pain Medication Management: Back to the Future A Focus on Ketamine

Providers face many challenges when faced with pain management. Pain is complex, difficult to understand, diagnose, and especially enigmatic to manage. The discovery of non-opioid agents for pain management has become particularly important considering the on-going opioid epidemic. This review is focused on revisiting Ketamine, an agent that has historically been used for anesthesia in new ways to manage pain. Ketamine has unique pharmacologic properties that may prevent the development of pain as well as reduce chronic pain.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Review Source Type: research