CLINICAL STUDIES OF INDUCTION AGENTS XXXVII: AMNESIC ACTION OF KETAMINE

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In the absence of depressant premedicants the incidence of pre-operative retrograde amnesia with ketamine is negligible and similar to that found with methohexitone. However, memory for events occuring 1 hour after apparent recovery is often impaired, the frequency of this event increasing with the total dose of ketamine given. A much higher incidence of amnesia is found when ketamine is given after heavy premedication, but again is no greater than that found when methohexitone is given after the same premedicants.

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