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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 8-9 |
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Intravenous ketamine for pain relief in a patient with supraglottic laryngeal cancer (Stage IV-C)
Prashant Chaudhari1, Bhumika Shah2, Sagar Karia1, Nilesh Shah1, Avinash De Sousa1
1 Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
2 Desousa Foundation, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Sagar Karia
Department of Psychiatry, Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai - 400 022, Maharashtra
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jrap.jrap_8_20
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Patients diagnosed with cancer often suffer from chronic pain. Management of pain is essential to improve the quality of life of patients. When the standard methods for pain management fail, novel techniques can be implemented. Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic agent which acts by reducing the central sensitization to pain. We report the case of a patient suffering from intractable pain as a result of Stage IV-C supraglottic laryngeal malignancy that responded well to intravenous ketamine.
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