Clinical trials: Ketamine
Headache, Intranasal Ketamine
"THINK Trial: Treatment of Headache With IntraNasal Ketamine: A Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Efficacy of Intranasal Ketamine Versus Standard Therapy in the Management of Primary Headache Syndromes in the Emergency Department"
This is a randomized, single-blind, placebo controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of sub-dissociative dose ketamine versus standard care therapy for acute headache management of in patients presenting to the emergency…
- Trial name
- THINK (NCT03081416)
- Testing
- Ketamine, Normal saline, Metoclopramide
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Brooke Army Medical Center
Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, Widespread
Ketamine's Effect Changes the Cortical Electrophysiological Activity Related to Semantic Affective Dimension of Pain
This is a clinical trial that intend to determine the effects of S-ketamine on event-related potentials associated with semantic affective pain-processing
- Conditions
- Acute Pain, Chronic Pain, Widespread, Schizophrenia
- Trial name
- NCT03915938
- Testing
- Ketamine
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Treatment Resistant Depression
Intranasal Esketamine to Maintain the Antidepressant Response to IV Racemic Ketamine
This study aims to assess the efficacy and safety of intranasal esketamine as maintenance antidepressant therapy in patients who have demonstrated clinical improvement with off-label intravenous racemic ketamine for…
- Trial name
- NCT04856124
- Testing
- Intranasal esketamine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Psych Atlanta
Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery, Ketamine
Perioperative Ketamine for Pain With Gastric Bypass
Opioid medications such as morphine, hydrocodone and oxycodone are standard for treating pain after surgery, however there are disadvantages.
- Trial name
- NCT03448068
- Testing
- Ketamine, Standard therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Post Operative Pain
Ketamine and Dexmedetomidine Comparative Study
In this study, the investigators will compare the effect of adding ketamine and dexmedetomidine to bupivacaine in US-guided combined sciatic and femoral nerve blocks as regards the onset and duration of the block, postoperative…
- Trial name
- NCT06032624
- Testing
- combined ultra-sound guided femoral and sciatic nerve block.
- Volunteers
- 50 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sohag University
Ketamine-Induced Mood Disorder
The Role of Ketamine and Dexmedetomidine in Opioid-Sparing Analgesia
Optimal multimodal opioid-sparing analgesic technique is considered as one of the most important Enhanced recovery pathways (ERPs) or enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) interventions that mitigate the undesirable effects of…
- Trial name
- NCT05474183
- Testing
- Ketamine
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Fayoum University Hospital
Renal Colic
Lornoxicam With Low Dose Ketamine Versus Pethidine to Control Pain of Acute Renal Colic
Patients with acute renal colic divided into 2 groups. Group L administered ornoxicam and Group P administered pethidine and VAS was recorded for both groups.
- Trial name
- NCT03780556
- Testing
- Lornoxicam and mepridine
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
Alcoholism
Ketamine/Placebo Family History Positive Study
The proposed study is the first to explore the contribution of brain glutamate systems, a major target of ethanol in the brain, to the vulnerability to develop alcoholism.
- Trial name
- NCT00588952
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 99 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Yale University
Intraoperative Awareness
Comparison of Combined Dexmedetomidine and Ketamine (Ketodex) Versus Dexmedetomidine Alone in Awake Mapping for Deep Brain Stimulation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Adult patients undergoing awake Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) surgery for movement disorders (e.g., Parkinson's Disease, Essential Tremor).
- Trial name
- NCT07513935
- Testing
- Ketodex, Dexmedetomidine
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
Major Depressive Disorder
Ketamine in the Treatment of Depression
Depressed patients will be offered experimental treatment with a new, potentially fast-acting antidepressant called ketamine while being scanned by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure the chemical effect of the drug.
- Trial name
- NCT01558063
- Testing
- Ketamine, Saline, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Columbia University
Major Depressive Disorder, Healthy Controls
Elucidating the Neurocircuitry of Irritability With High-Field Neuroimaging to Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets
The study is investigating dysfunctions in neurocircuitry in regards to irritability with healthy controls (HC) and individuals with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) by performing MRIs.
- Trial name
- UNIKET (NCT05046184)
- Testing
- Ketamine Hydrochloride, Midazolam injection
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 104 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Pediatric Sedation, Clonidine Sedation
Premedication in Children: a Clinical Trial Comparing Oral Ketamine and Oral Clonidine With Respect to Sedation Level and Opioid Consumption in Pediatrics Undergoing Elective Lower Abdominal Day-case Surgery.
Aim of the work Is to compare between oral ketamine and oral clonidine regarding the level of sedation pre and postoperatively in addition the need of opioids administration intraoperative in children undergoing elective lower…
- Conditions
- Pediatric Sedation, Clonidine Sedation, Ketamine Sedation
- Trial name
- NCT07461376
- Testing
- Oral Clonidine (OC)
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Cairo University
Hip Arthropathy, Hip Disease
Cardiac Index and General Anesthesia Without Opioid.
General anesthesia used to be based on the association of hypnotics and opioid drugs. But recent studies showed that opioids may be related to a many different complications, like respiratory distress, hyperalgesia.
- Trial name
- OFFLOW (NCT05446623)
- Testing
- Dexmedetomidine, Sufentanil
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 120 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier de Montauban
Forearm Fracture
Hematoma Block as an Adjunct to Procedural Sedation for Forearm Fracture Reduction
The purpose of our study is to determine if the use of a hematoma block together with intravenous sedation and analgesia is an effective means of managing forearm fractures in the Emergency Department.
- Trial name
- NCT00763880
- Testing
- Lidocaine, Saline
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 89 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rhode Island Hospital
Chronic Low Back Pain
Intra-operative Ketamine Infusions in Opioid-dependent Patients With Chronic Lower Back Pain
Noxious stimuli occurring intraoperatively and postoperatively generate central sensitization, decreasing pain thresholds and ultimately increasing analgesic requirements.
- Trial name
- NCT00899600
- Testing
- Ketamine, Normal saline
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 102 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Morbid Obesity, Surgery
Ketamine Infusion vs Dexmedetomidine Infusion in Obese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery
The surgeries that involve treatment of morbid obesity, i.e. bypass procedure and sleeve gastrectomy, are collectively covered under the term 'bariatric surgery'.
- Trial name
- NCT04576975
- Testing
- Ketamine, Dexmedetomidine, Normal Saline 0.9%
- Where
- Egypt
- Volunteers
- 90 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Ain Shams University
Major Depressive Disorder
miRNAs, Suicide, and Ketamine - Plasma Exosomal microRNAs as Novel Biomarkers for Suicidality and Treatment Outcome
The purpose of this study is to examine whether neural-derived exosomal miRNAs are differentially expressed that are specific to suicidal ideation or behavior, and which by affecting specific miRNA targets and pathways, are…
- Trial name
- NCT02418195
- Testing
- ketamine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 247 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Alabama at Birmingham
Healthy Subjects
Cognitive Biases Under Ketamine
Characterise cognitive biases resulting from low dose ketamine infusion, used as a pharmacological model of psychosis. Our assumption is that low dose ketamine results in reasoning biases by impairing the way uncertainty is…
- Trial name
- KETABI (NCT02235012)
- Testing
- Ketamine
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 84 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Anesthesia
Dexmedetomidine Sedation With Third Molar Surgery
Intravenous sedation is used frequently for the relief of pain and anxiety associated with oral surgical procedures performed under local anesthesia.
- Trial name
- NCT01017237
- Testing
- Dexmedetomidine, Midazolam, Ketamine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 18 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Anesthesia, Unconsciousness
The Neural Mechanisms of Anesthesia and Human Consciousness (Part 6)
Positron Emission Tomography (PET), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) studies will be carried out to reveal the neural correlates of consciousness.
- Trial name
- NCT02624401
- Testing
- Dexmedetomidine, Propofol, S-ketamine
- Where
- Finland
- Volunteers
- 160 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Turku