KETAMINE： MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL USES

Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic.It is listed by the World Health Organisation[1]in its Model List of Essential Medicines,which are basic drugs required for any health-care system.Indeed,clinically ketamine possesses hypnotic,analgesic and amnesic effects.It is commonly used as induction

Ketamine is a dissociative anaesthetic.It is listed by the World Health Organisation[1]in its Model List of Essential Medicines,which are basic drugs required for any health-care system.Indeed,clinically ketamine possesses hypnotic,analgesic and amnesic effects.It is commonly used as induction and maintenance anaesthetic in surgery, especially in paediatric[21 and veterinary[3-a] surgery, with clear clinical guideline.