Ketamin Abcur
Ketamin Abcur is a medicine used to help you sleep or relax during surgeries or medical tests.
Form
injektioneste, liuos
Strength
10 mg/ml
Active Ingredient
Ketamine hydrochloride
Manufacturer
Abcur AB
How to Use
Dosage
Your doctor or nurse will decide the right dose for you based on your needs.
Method
A healthcare professional will give you this medicine as a slow injection into a vein or muscle, or as a drip.
Important
The doctor will carefully manage your dose to ensure you receive a safe amount and not too much.
Possible Side Effects
COMMON
- •Hallucinations, strange dreams, nightmares, feeling restless, confusion, unusual behavior
- •Increased body movements (like muscle twitches) that can look like seizures, and increased eye movements
- •Double vision
- •Increased blood pressure and a fast heartbeat
- •Faster breathing
- •Nausea, vomiting, and increased saliva
- •Skin redness, rash that looks like measles
RARE
- •Loss of appetite
- •Anxiety
- •Increased eye pressure
- •Irregular or slow heartbeat
- •Low blood pressure
- •Breathing problems, muscle spasms in the throat
- •Rash
- •Increased muscle stiffness
- •Pain and/or rash at the injection site
- •Severe allergic reaction
- •Delirium, flashbacks, numbness, trouble sleeping, feeling disoriented (confused about time and place)
- •Lung disease, shortness of breath
Important Warnings
- Do not use if you are allergic to ketamine or any of its ingredients.
- Do not use if very high blood pressure is a serious risk for you.
- Do not use if you have eclampsia or pre-eclampsia (a pregnancy problem with high blood pressure).
- Tell your doctor if you have heart problems, low blood volume, or are dehydrated.
- Tell your doctor if you have high blood pressure or a fast heartbeat.
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- Tell your doctor if you have increased pressure in your brain or spine, or a brain/spinal injury.
- Tell your doctor if you have high eye pressure (like glaucoma) or will have eye surgery.
- Tell your doctor if you have an alcohol problem or are currently under the influence of alcohol.
- Tell your doctor if you have any mental health conditions like schizophrenia or severe anxiety.
- Tell your doctor if you have acute intermittent porphyria (a rare blood disorder).
- Tell your doctor if you have an overactive thyroid or take thyroid medication.
- Tell your doctor if you have a lung or breathing infection.
- Tell your doctor if you have a head injury, eye injury, or hydrocephalus (water on the brain).
- Tell your doctor if you have liver disease.
- Tell your doctor if you have a history of drug abuse.
- Do not drive or operate machinery for 24 hours after receiving this medicine.
- Do not drink alcohol for 24 hours after receiving this medicine.
- Do not eat or drink for 4-6 hours before your procedure.
- If you have day surgery, you must not go home alone.