Intravenous regional anaesthesia with ketamine

Abstract

Ketamine, 40 ml 0.5% solution, was used in the technique of intravenous regional anaesthesia in 14 patients undergoing upper limb surgery. Satisfactory analgesia was obtained in 12 of the patients. The method is limited by the fact that all patients became unconscious within a few minutes of tourniquet release, and that this could not be prevented by naloxone.