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KETAMINE:MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL USES
Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic.It is listed by the World Health Organisation[1] in its Model List of Essential Medicines, which are basic drugs required for any health-care system.Indeed, clinically ketamine possesses hypnotic, analgesic and amnesic effects.It is commonly used as induction and maintenance anaesthetic in surgery, especially in paediatric[2] and veterinary[3-4] surgery, with clear clinical guideline[5].In fact, it has been administered for a variety of surgical and diagnostic procedures for burn patients, aged and critically ill patients, obstetric patients, cardio-thoracic patients, outpatients and asadjunct to local and regional anaesthetics[6].