Intramuscular Ketamine Effect on Postnasal Surgery Agitation: A Prospective Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates the effect of intramuscular ketamine on emergence agitation (EA) following septoplasty and open septorhinoplasty (OSRP) when administered at subanesthetic doses at the end of surgery. A random sample of 160 ASA I-II adult patients who underwent septoplasty or OSRP between May and October, 2022, was divided into two groups of eighty patients each: ketamine (Group K) and saline (Group S) with the latter serving as the control group. At the end of surgery immediately after turning off the inhalational agent, Group K was administered with intramuscular 2 ml of normal saline containing 0.7 mg/kg ketamine and Group S with 2 ml of intramuscular normal saline. Sedation and agitation scores at emergence from anesthesia were recorded after extubation using the Richmond Agitat

SUBMITTER: Almajali HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9988369 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature