Ketamine, a phencyclidine derivative, has been employed as an anesthetic agent since 1965.1 A troublesome problem has been psychic disturbances on emergence. The incidence of emergence phenomena in adults ranges from 5 to 50 per cent; the greatest incidence has been associated with large doses of ke
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Meyers et al. (1978) studied this question.