Table 3.

Summary of clinical uses for ketamine.

Anesthesia	Analgesia and sedation		Psychiatry and neuroscience
Advantageous settings: • Hemodynamic instability • Pediatric patients • Uncooperative patients • Traumatic brain injury • Bronchospasm • Battlefield/Mass casualty	Acute settings: • Procedures • Burns • ED Agitation/Pain • Post-operative pain	Chronic settings: • Cancer pain • CRPS • Phantom limb pain • Fibromyalgia • Ischemic pain • Migraines	Emerging use: • Depression • Suicidal ideation • PTSD Modeling: • Schizophrenia • Consciousness

ED, emergency department; CPRS, complex regional pain syndrome; PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. Please see text (“Clinical Uses in Medicine” Section) for associated references.