Can ketamine prescribed for pain cause damage to the urinary tract?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 670-672

  Storr, Teresa M ^a   Quibell, R ^b  

^a Eden Valley Hospice   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Cystitis; Dysuria; Haematuria; Ketamine; Palliative

Indexed keywords

CLONAZEPAM; DEXAMETHASONE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; METHADONE; NABUMETONE; PARACETAMOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BLADDER BIOPSY; BLADDER CONTRACTION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CASE REPORT; CROHN DISEASE; CYSTALGIA; CYSTOSCOPY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSURIA; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERINEUM INJURY; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINE INCONTINENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALGESICS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; UROLOGIC DISEASES;

EID: 71049185534     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216309106828     Document Type: Article

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