Use of Ketamine in Patients with Multifactorial Neuropathic Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Neuropathic pain (NP) is a heterogeneous group of conditions characterized by the experience of a number of sensory disturbances including pain, burning sensations, paroxysms of stabbing pain, dysesthesias, allodynia, and hyperalgesia. The above-mentioned sensations may occur in a specific dermatome area or other delimited region of the body. The objective of this review was to analyze the evidence for ketamine in multifactorial neuropathic pain. The research group systematically searched the databases MEDLINE (via PubMed), EMBASE, SCOPUS, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Cinahl), and the Web of Science. The findings of this review show that different forms of low doses of ketamine (LDK) do not present statist

SUBMITTER: Bruna-Mejias A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11435086 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature