Eskelan^®

Eskelan^® contains the active substance esketamine. This is an anaesthetic (used to keep patients asleep during surgery) with analgesic effects.

Eskelan^® is given to adults, children and adolescents:

• to induce and maintain general anaesthesia (general anaesthesia), if necessary together with sleeping pills
• to supplement local anaesthesia (local or regional anaesthesia)
• for anaesthesia and pain relief (analgesia) in emergency medicine
• for anaesthesia in asthmatic patients when artificial respiration (intubation) is necessary
• for pain control during artificial respiration (intubation)