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Ketamine
About Ketamine
A unique anesthetic that produces dissociative anesthesia. Ketamine or Ketalar maintains blood pressure and breathing, unlike other anesthetics. It is widely used in trauma and battlefield medicine. In 2019, esketamine or Spravato was approved as a nasal spray for treatment resistant depression, representing the first new mechanism of antidepressant action in decades. Ketamine is also abused recreationally. The drug has transformed both battlefield anesthesia and the understanding of depressions glutamate pathway.
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