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For more than 10 years, reports have been published on the analgesic effects of sub-anesthetic doses of ketamine [2– 6]. Clements et al. [1] recently tried to relate the analgesic effects of 0.5 mg/kg ketamine i.m. to the pharmacokinetic data. They reported that effective analgesia is present as soon as plasma levels of ketamine increase above the threshold level of 150 ng/ml.
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Dick, W., Hirlinger, W.K., Mehrkens, H.H. (1985). Intramuscular Ketamine: An Alternative Pain Treatment for use in Disasters?. In: Manni, C., Magalini, S.I. (eds) Emergency and Disaster Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69262-8_29
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