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Ketamine for chronic pain: risks and benefits

The anaesthetic ketamine is used to treat various chronic pain syndromes, especially those that have a neuropathic component. Low dose ketamine produces strong analgesia in neuropathic pain states, presumably by inhibition of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor although other mechanisms are possibly i...

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Main Authors: Niesters, Marieke, Martini, Christian, Dahan, Albert
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4014022/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23432384
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bcp.12094
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