Abstract:Objective: To observe the analgesic effect of Patient Control Subcutaneous Analgesia(PCSA) with low dose ketamine and morphine for late phase cancer pain patients. Methods: Eighteen patients with moderate to severe late phase cancer pain were randomly divided into two groups. They were treated with morphine PCSA or low dose ketamine plus morphine PCSA, respectively. The VAS (Visual Analogue Scale) of pain scores and the rate of side effects were also evaluated. Result: Pain in both groups were largely alleviated, but the times of pressing in morphine group was more than that in morphine plus ketamine group. There was no significant difference in VAS pains scores in each period. The patients' life satisfactory rate in the second group was higher obviously than that in the first group. The incidence of nausea, vomiting and skin titillation in the first group was higher than in the second group. There was no difference in the incidence of respiration depression and hallucination between two groups.