Table 6: Heart rate (beat/minute) among the studied cases.

Time Ketamine
(N=40)
Control
(N=40)
P-value Difference (Ket- Control)
Mean± SE 95% CI
Base 90.5±5.0 89.7±5.2 0.498 0.8±1.1 -1.5–3.0
Minute-5 91.9±5.8 71.0±2.1 <0.001* 20.9±1.0 19.0–22.9
Minute-10 100.7±5.8 51.1±9.7 <0.001* 49.6±1.8 46.0–53.1
Minute-15 112.3±5.1 79.2±10.0 <0.001* 33.1±1.8 29.6–36.7
Minute-20 118.3±5.1 112.7±10.1 0.002* 5.6±1.8 2.0–9.2
Minute-35 118.9±4.2 115.5±10.1 0.052 3.4±1.7 0.0–6.9
Minute-50 119.4±3.4 116.6±10.2 0.106 2.8±1.7 -0.6–6.2
Minute-65 120.3±2.5 117.6±10.1 0.101 2.7±1.6 -0.5–6.0
End 91.3±2.3 89.6±10.0 0.313 1.7±1.6 -1.6–4.9

*Significant, CI: Confidence Interval