We have investigated the effects of intra-articular (i.a.) administration of ketorolac in the rat knee joint. Thirty Sprague-Dawley rats were given 0.25 ml of a standard preparation of ketorolac trometamol (10 mg ml-1) by injection into the right knee joint and 0.25 ml of 0.9% physiological saline solution by injection into the left knee as a control. Ten rats were killed at 24 h, 10 at 48 h an...

STUDY OBJECTIVE Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are used extensively for the management of acute and chronic pain, with ketorolac tromethamine being one of the most frequently used parenteral analgesics in the emergency department (ED). The drugs may commonly be used at doses above their analgesic ceiling, offering no incremental analgesic advantage while potentially adding risk of harm. W...

Aim—To study the eVect of the topical anti-inflammatory drug, ketorolac, on (1) the clinical allergic reaction induced by the conjunctival provocation test (CPT); (2) the release of tryptase in tears; and (3) the expression of adhesion molecules on the conjunctival epithelium. Methods—10 allergic but non-active patients were challenged in both eyes with increasing doses of specific allergen to ...

The present study was undertaken to develop a suitable transdermal matrix patch of ketorolac tromethamine with different proportions of polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) and ethyl cellulose (EC) using a D-optimal mixture design. The prepared transdermal patches were subjected to different physicochemical evaluation. The surface topography of the patches was examined by scanning electron microscopy (S...

Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the corneal epitheliotoxic effects of preservative-free ketorolac tromethamine 0.5% and diclofenac sodium 0.1% eye drops in rabbits. Seventeen New Zealand rabbits were randomly divided into three groups: group, control group (0.9% NaCl). For each rabbit, both eyes treated times daily according their treatment group. The epithelia analyzed using scanning ele...