Ketamine for dilatation and currettage procedures: patient acceptance.

106 patients undergoing abortion were anesthetized at random with 1 of 3 techniques; ketamine only (53 cases), thiopental followed by ketamine with nitrous oxide-oxygen maintenance (37 cases), or thiopental nitrous oxide-oxygen, d-tubocurarine (61 cases). The intravenous ketamine anesthesia was the easiest to administer for the staff, but 41.5% of the patients stated they would not want ketamine anesthesia again. Recovery room time for the no-ketamine group was shorter than in the 2-ketamine groups. Patients receiving Ketamine were most frequently nauseated. 24.5% of the ketamine-only patients reported unpleasant sensations on going to sleep.