Efficacy and safety of esketamine for pain control after cesarean delivery: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Frontiers in Pharmacology December 1, 2025 Tiejia Jiang, Rui Zhao
As a therapy for postoperative analgesia, esketamine shows relatively favorable efficacy in pain control and is associated with a lower risk of postpartum depression. However, this result is unstable. Furthermore, esketamine may increase the risk of dizziness in pregnant women aged over 30 years. Since all the experiments in this study are conducted in China, there are certain regional...