Effect of Ketamine Added to Intravenous Patient-controlled Analgesia on Postoperative Pain, Nausea and Vomiting in Patients Undergoing Lumbar Spinal Surgery

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2012-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Ketamine added to intravenous patient-controlled analgesia may be effective on prevention of postoperative nausea and vomiting by reducing opioid requirement after surgery.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Yonsei University
• Treatments: Ketamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Non-smoking female patients undergoing elective lumbar spinal surgery

• Age 20-65

• American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification I or II

Exclusion Criteria:

• Antiemetic within 24 hrs, Taking Steroids, Opioids within 1 week

• Psychiatric disease, Active drug or alcohol abuse

• GI motility disorder, severe renal/ hepatic disease

• insulin-dependent DM

• admission to ICU after surgery