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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, Vol 24, 110-117, Copyright © 1977 by Canadian Anesthesiologists' Society

Anaesthesia for Dilatation, Evacuation and Curettage in Outpatients: Comparison of Subanaesthetic Doses of Ketamine and Sodium Methohexitone-Nitrous Oxide Anaesthesia

EDUARDO M. FIGALLO 1, RAY McKENZIE 1, BOONRAK TANTISIRA 1, RAJINDAR K. WADHWA 1, and CEFERINO S. SINCHIOCO 1

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

Sub-dissociative doses of ketamine compared unfavourably with methohexitonenitrous oxide anaesthesia for dilatation, evacuation and curettage. We could not separate the desirable effects of analgesia and amnesia from the unwanted dream effects and visual disturbances. Although the time to clinical recovery was similar, the Trieger Motor Test revealed a delay in return to normal in both groups.






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