BioMed Research International
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 749837, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/749837
Review Article
Role of Ketamine in Acute Postoperative Pain Management: A Narrative Review
Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-Operative Medicine, Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, 185 South Orange Avenue, South Orange, Newark, NJ 07103, USA
Received 16 December 2014; Accepted 16 March 2015
Academic Editor: Kok Eng Khor
Copyright © 2015 Brian M. Radvansky et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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