Ketamine - 8
Precautions
- Emergence reactions
- Relative contraindications
- patient with intracranial mass lesion and elevated ICP
- open eye injury (or whenever increased intraocular pressure would be harmful)
- sole agent in ischemic heart disease
- patient with vascular aneurysm
- psychotic disease
Other notes
- ketamine has been reported to potentiate nondepolarizing neuromuscular blockade
- ketamine's preservative may be neurotoxic, so epidural or subarachnoid administration may be unwise
