Side Effects After Ketamine Anesthesia

Ketamine Injection among High Risk Youth: Preliminary Findings from New York City

“…Ketamine became the most widely used battlefield anesthetic during the Vietnam War (Siegel, 1978) and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use among children and elderly in 1970. Gradually, ketamine became used less in medical settings after clinical administrations revealed certain complications in some patients, such as vivid dreaming, hallucinations, and confused states (Fine, Weissman, & Finestone, 1974;Perel & Davidson, 1976). Currently, ketamine is dispensed primarily by veterinarians as an animal sedative (Curran & Morgan, 2000).…”

Complications during recovery from anaesthesia in the equine patient

“…In common with human patients following ketamine anaesthesia (Fine et al 1974), transient blindness has been reported in horses on rare occasions following xylazineketamine administration (Klein 1990). Vision apparently returned 45-60 min later.…”

Services to Operate and Maintain the Microwave Research Facility at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas

“…In Kues' experiments, it was highly probable that the ketamine dose would have been increased to achieve the same effect in monkeys. Reports of the consequences of a high ketamine dose could be retinal ultrastructural changes within one hour after the ketamine administration (30 mg/kg body weight) in rabbits ], or a transient loss of vision for 25 to 30 minutes in humans after regaining full consciousness from intra-muscular and intravenous ketamine monoanesthesia at doses from 1.5 to 2.6 mg/kg [Fine 1974]. The ketamine-induced ultrastructural changes were similar to those induced by hypoxia ].…”