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Academic -- UNF -- Nursing; D.N.P.; DNP; ketamine; postoperative; acute postoperative; pain; anesthesia; multimodal analgesia; adjunct agents; opioid; side effects
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Increasing Practitioner Knowledge Of Ketamine As An Adjunct Analgesic For Postoperative Pain, Allison Goldfarb
Increasing Practitioner Knowledge Of Ketamine As An Adjunct Analgesic For Postoperative Pain, Allison Goldfarb
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Postoperative pain is of serious concern to patients and anesthesia providers alike. Management of a patients’ pain is a central component of anesthesia care. Ketamine as an anesthetic agent has been available for 50 years. It has been utilized as a general anesthetic and selectively as an anesthetic agent for high-risk patients. Due to dysphoric side effects associated with the dosage required to render general anesthesia, anesthesia providers may be reluctant to utilize this medication to its full potential. Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in ketamine as an analgesic agent. The researcher for this project performed a …