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Intravenous ketamine hydrochloride and local anesthesia in anorectal surgery

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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Experience with the use of ketamine hydrochloride combined with local infiltration anesthesia in 200 anorectal surgical patients is reported, and a method of aborting or preventing unpleasant psychomotor reactions is described. On the basis of this study, ketamine hydrochloride with infiltration of local anesthetic is recommended for use in anorectal surgery.

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  1. Great Neck, New York

    Richard M. Alexander M.D. & Barton Hoexter M.D.

  2. Bethpage, New York

    Jack W. McElwain M.D. & M. Douglas MacLean M.D.

  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Deepdale General Hospital, New York, New York

    Harry J. Powers M.D. (Director)

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  1. Richard M. Alexander M.D.
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  2. Jack W. McElwain M.D.
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Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic society, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 10 to 13 1971.

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Alexander, R.M., McElwain, J.W., MacLean, M.D. et al. Intravenous ketamine hydrochloride and local anesthesia in anorectal surgery. Dis Colon Rectum 15, 11–13 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02587662

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