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OCTOBER 22, 2018

Ketamine Does Not Prevent Chronic Pain in Acute Trauma Patients

By Nikki Kean


SEATTLE—To help prevent the development of chronic pain after acute trauma, many pain management experts have begun to study the use of continuous ketamine infusion in the ICU. However, preliminary data presented during a poster session at the 2018 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy indicate that pain management strategy may be flawed.

In a small retrospective study, Cara Coleman, PharmD, at the University of Cincinnati James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, in Ohio,